Word: iraqis
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Constant's career points up a moral ambiguity bedeviling U.S. intelligence: when do efforts to gather information on violent dictatorships and terrorist groups cross the line into aiding and encouraging bloodshed and oppression? It is a problem the CIA faces when recruiting agents in the Iraqi secret police, the Chinese prison system and among the Hutu and Tutsi tribes that slaughtered each other in Rwanda, to mention only a few of the repugnant people it has dealt with. In Haiti specifically, says a White House official, "the CIA has bought and stolen information from all sides" -- even though "we knew...
...desperate citizenry might rebel; a demoralized army could conceivably fold. "Nobody wants to fight for Saddam anymore," says the expatriate Iraqi. "Four thousand Americans could march in and take Baghdad." But the deprivations may also have sapped any stirrings of revolt. "There is no energy to fight the regime," says Soli Ozel, an assistant professor of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins. "People are just scrambling to find food. Saddam is more powerful than ever...
That was the image of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, bloodied but unbowed -- and unenlightened -- after his humiliation in the 1991 Gulf War, when a U.N. mission led by the U.S. drove his troops out of Kuwait and kindled a holocaust of as many as 100,000 Iraqis. Last week Saddam gave hints he wanted a rematch, massing 64,000 troops, including two Republican Guard units, on the Kuwaiti border. "It's pretty much the same scenario that unfolded two weeks before he invaded Kuwait," noted a senior Clinton Administration official. "It's unlikely they could reach Kuwait City, but they...
...country is crippled. Such basic goods as medicine and farm supplies cannot come in, and an annual $15 billion worth of oil cannot go out. Malnutrition is rampant; last month the government cut food rations in half. "The people of Iraq are being destroyed by the sanctions," says an Iraqi now living in the U.S. "The social fabric is being torn apart. Iraq has been wounded for four years, and nobody cares...
Even as Saddam talked peace, Pentagon officials were worried that his troops were dragging their feet in an apparent retreat from the Kuwaiti border: at least two Iraqi brigades reportedly stopped near the southern city of An Nasiriya. U.S. Marines, meanwhile, staged a practice landing in Kuwait. Defense Secretary William Perry said American troops could head home in a few weeks if all goes well...