Word: iraqis
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...Mubarak has reportedly offeredSaddam Husseinpolitical asylum in the hope that the rogue regime in Baghdad might be replaced. An advance copy of Saturday's Al-Hayat, a London-based Arab newspaper, obtained by the Associated Press quotes Mubarak explaining his offer as "a solution to the problem of the Iraqi people and to prevent a bloodbath in Iraq."World editor James Collinssays the plan probably doesn't mean Saddam will leave Iraq anytime soon. "Given current circumstances, it's not a highly meaningful offer.The cracks in the Baghdad regimeare widening, but Saddam isn't that desperate...
...Disclosing the biological weapons arsenal is significant, but it may not be enough," says Defense correspondent Mark Thompson ofSaddam Hussein's newfound honesty.Now that the Iraqi leader has admitted to U.N. officials that he harbored agerm warfare programthroughout the Gulf War, Thompson says, "we know he doesn't have any weapons of mass destruction, but he still uses AK-47s on the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south." International attention, he adds, is now focused squarely on whether the U.S. will permit lifting crippling economic sanctions against Iraq...
SADDAM HUSSEIN His daughters bag Dad, defecting along with top Iraqi aides...
...Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's daughters and their husbands--high-ranking military leaders--received political asylum in Jordan, along with other senior army officers. The defections are a potential intelligence windfall for the U.S. and signal deep divisions in Saddam's ruling clique...
...defections and the movement of American troops in the region may have forcedSaddamto abandon another invasion of neighboring Kuwait. Iraqi troops, which had been mobilized and were observed moving toward the Kuwaiti border, were backing away today...