Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forces in Iraq have accelerated their campaign to clear opposition Shi'ite Muslims from a vast marshland in the southern part of the country. Engineers have diverted water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to drain large areas of the swamps, home to an estimated 200,000 people, and Iraqi soldiers have burned villages and carried out summary executions. Some witnesses have described attacks using chemical weapons...
...Czechs believe the toxins drifted over ground troops after allied forces blew up an Iraqi chemical installation 100 miles northwest of Kuwait. U.S. defense officials have rejected that idea because they believe the wind was blowing in the opposite direction -- back into Iraq. Furthermore, they found no evidence of casualties caused by chemical agents anywhere near the site of the attack...
...Secret Negotiations to Lift Iraqi Sanctions...
...Hussein is Assad's sworn enemy, but Assad feels a growing isolation from his neighbors -- Iran, Turkey and Iraq -- and so is doing Iraq this favor. The Clinton Administration wants a Syrian-Israeli agreement on the Golan by the end of this year, and has initiated secret talks with Iraqi officials at the U.N. aimed at lifting the sanctions...
...American territory or lives, in which the U.S. must act. Here are some: 1) if the world faces a nuclear threat, for example from North Korea; 2) if a vital U.S. ally is attacked; 3) if a crucial area like the Middle East is once again subjected to Iraqi-style aggression; 4) if we are confronted with a major terrorist offensive...