Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kuwait is still suffering the consequences of the Iraqi Gulf War occupation, said Kuwait's new ambassador to the United States in a speech at the Law School on Wednesday...
...FOUR AMERICAN FIGHTER JETS WERE ON A ROUtine monitoring flight over northern Iraq when ground radar locked on -- a clear sign of trouble. The next message was entirely unambiguous: several rounds of artillery fire from an Iraqi emplacement near the Saddam Dam. Though they were not hit, the American pilots followed standing orders and answered in kind, dropping four cluster bombs on the firing battery. The fighters, three F-16s and one F-4G, then returned to Incirlik air base in Turkey...
Expansions are always tricky endeavors. Oftentimes, they look like good ideas, but there can be a nasty backlash. Take Saddam Hussein. One day, the U.S. government is secretly sending him money. So he decides to have the Iraqi army start a farm club in Kuwait, and the next thing you know American bombs are falling on Baghdad...
...rebels in Tehran say the fish, buffalo and rice that were the staples of life are gone. They claim the Iraqi army is using poison to kill marsh wildlife, and they show videotapes of hundreds of fish floating belly up on the brackish waters. Emma Nicholson, a British M.P. who has made three trips to the marshes, says the inhabitants can no longer sustain themselves. In the past eight months, more than 350 villages have been destroyed by shell and rocket fire. "The only way to live in the marshes today is to remain alone and move every day," said...
Rebel leaders say that because of the encirclement, it is virtually impossible to get supplies into the swamps or evacuate the wounded. Access has been limited to small boats that attempt to steal past Iraqi army positions at night. According to a report prepared for the European Community, the government blockade has brought widespread starvation to the marshes and caused commodity prices to rise by "300 times in the past six months." The blockade is so effective, says the report, that there is not even a black market...