Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last month the State Department dispatched an emissary to urge Talabani and Barzani to make peace. Turkey opposes an independent Kurdistan, but it has nevertheless warned both sides to stop the fighting, fearing a flood of refugees if civil war continues or Iraqi troops move in. Saddam has bolstered his forces in the north but has held off any major attacks, hoping to charm the U.N. into lifting sanctions...
...Iraqi police arrested two Americans working in Kuwait after they crossed into Iraq without authorization. The men, who were trying to visit friends at a U.N. camp near the border, were arrested after they were accidentally sent through a border crossing by the U.N. observer mission...
SINCE THE END OF THE GULF WAR IN 1991, VARIOUS American journalists, businessmen, even a bomb-disposal expert have found themselves in Iraqi jails after wandering across the border with Kuwait. In most cases they were held for a few days or weeks and then quietly released. But last week when two civilian defense contractors were detained after straying into southern Iraq, State Department officials were worried that this time they might not be so fortunate...
...gone to the border area to visit friends in a Danish engineering unit. Border guards apparently mistook their white jeep for a U.N. vehicle and waved them through several checkpoints. After Bangladeshi soldiers at a U.N. position turned them back, the men tried to retreat but were stopped by Iraqi police just 25 yards from the border...
...Clinton Administration has branded as "hogwash" a claim by the speaker of the Iraqi parliament that thetwo Americans arrested just inside Iraqlast week were U.S. saboteurs. The two, civilian workers William Barloon and David Daliberti, were sentenced Saturday to eight years in prison for entering the country illegally, though they said they were visiting a friend just across the border from Kuwait. At home, the White House fought GOP calls to consider a military rescue mission if Iraq does not release the men. Sunday, presidential candidate Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said President Clinton should publicly weigh military options, while...