Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Uday, a wanton killer who is Hussein Kamel's sworn enemy. When word of the return reached the West, Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a woman who rarely finds herself at a loss for words, said simply, "I have given up trying to understand the Iraqi elite...
...were unimpressed by his character: "Completely inflexible," said a senior Jordanian security official, "and sick in his mind to the extent that he believes only he can be the savior of Iraq and anyone else who attempts to save Iraq is a traitor." As for those in the Iraqi opposition, they dismissed him as a bloody agent of the repression they had fled. "He made approaches to a lot of us," said Ahmed Chalabi, leader of an opposition group. "He wanted us to follow him and cooperate. But nobody took him seriously. We consider him a war criminal. We didn...
...UMASS-Amherst professor and a Harvard researcher blamed United Nations (U.N.) sanctions for the starvation and poor nutrition of Iraqi children before an audience of roughly 50 students in Emerson Hall last night...
...reason for the party's return: the refusal of other expatriate dissidents to embrace General Kamel as their leader left him isolated and unhappy, says MacLeod. "Also, after warmly welcoming Kamel to Jordan and ensconcing his family in a lavish royal palace, King Hussein gradually distanced himself from the Iraqi defector...
AMMAN, JORDAN: Iraqui Defectors Lt. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Col. Saddam Kamel returned to Iraq with their wives, both daughters of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday. The party moved back to Iraq in a 25-vehicle caravan after the Iraqi Revolutionary Council answered al-Majid's request for a pardon with the vague promise that he would be treated like "an ordinary citizen." Even though Al-Majid's defection last August to Jordan was considered a blow to Saddam's regime, al-Majid was ignored by Western governments and the Iraqi dissidents he had hoped to lead...