Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the genocide in Bosnia worsening, the U.S. decided it was time to fight for democracy abroad--by punishing Iraq for an alleged assassination attempt on George Bush. Though Americans were assured that the bombs targeted only an Iraqi intelligence building, newspaper stories of dead civilians soon abounded...
...Iraqi Envoys Seek Asylum...
...Iraqi ambassadors sought asylum in Britain, protesting what they called the "reign of terror and misery" of Saddam Hussein. Both Hamed Al-Jubouri, who retired two weeks ago as ambassador to Tunisia, and Hisham Al-Shawi, ambassador to Canada, also joined the Iraqi National Congress, an umbrella organization of anti-Saddam groups...
...Iraqi air-defense battery near the city of Mosul fired two surface-to-air missiles at a pair of U.S. jets patrolling the U.N.-imposed "no-fly zone" over northern Iraq. Though the attackers missed their targets, the U.S. response was swift and unusually aggressive. After fighter-bombers dropped cluster bombs on the antiaircraft site, laser-guided bombs were directed at it by another pair of U.S. planes...
Saddam Hussein, at least as he is caricatured in Western demonology, is the perfect comic-book villain for Jeffrey Archer's latest summer-weight thriller. ) What's more, the Iraqi strongman has cooked up a fiendish scheme to humiliate the Great Satan: steal the Declaration of Independence from its place in the U.S. National Archives, and burn it on July 4, 1993, in Baghdad's Victory Square. Horrors! Curses! Zounds...