Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raid sirens in Baghdad woke residents early Sunday morning as a flight of 23 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from two U.S. warships converged in an attack on the headquarters of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. The raid was in response to an attempt in April to assassinate former President George Bush in Kuwait. President Bill Clinton said he approved the retaliation after receiving "compelling evidence" that Iraq had been responsible for planning the foiled assassination attempt...
Then there was the bomb -- made with military explosives and built right into the frame of a Toyota Land Cruiser, not just dropped into the trunk. Its internal mechanism bore the signature that the FBI had found in another bomb of undoubted Iraqi provenance. Asked if he was "certain" or just "highly confident" that Bush had been targeted by Saddam Hussein, a senior U.S. intelligence official tersely replied, "We're certain. Al-Ghazali was tasked specifically to kill President Bush...
...missiles launched from a destroyer, the Peterson, in the Red Sea, and a cruiser, the Chancellorsville, sailing in the Persian Gulf. The missiles were fired in the late afternoon Washington time, or about midnight in Baghdad. Carrying 1,000 lbs. of explosives apiece, they reached their target, the sprawling Iraqi Intelligence Service headquarters, in about an hour and a half. Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell explained that the intelligence agency had undoubtedly conducted the assassination attempt, so it merited the punishment. Further, as Aspin said, the attack was intended to send...
Suddenly the U.S. finds itself flexing its muscle against those who would do it harm. Persuaded that Saddam Hussein ordered the assassination of George Bush, Bill Clinton orders a missile attack against the headquarters of Iraqi intelligence in Baghdad. Meanwhile, after a five-month investigation, federal agents bust a Muslim terrorist group as it prepares to devastate New York City...
None of Said's political foes have been able to cite a single utterance by him that could be construed as anti-Semitic or as condoning either tyranny or terrorism. Hence they fall back on innuendo, smear tactics or -- in the case of Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi whose recent book Cruelty and Silence, directed against Arab acquiescence in the horrors of Saddam's regime, also fiercely attacks Said -- on distortions of his views. The feud between Makiya and Said has been seized on, to the pleasure of neither, by American anti-Arabists. Said, declaimed A.M. Rosenthal in the New York...