Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year stint as U.N. ambassador in Geneva to serve as presidential adviser. He is also the overseer of Saddam's personal financial empire, allegedly a $30 billion fortune amassed by skimming 5% off Iraq's oil revenues since Saddam became President in 1979. Because $5.5 billion in official Iraqi accounts has been frozen abroad, Saddam is suspected of tapping his private accounts to finance restoration of the country...
...years after Saddam's shattering defeat in the Gulf War, the Iraqi dictator remains in full control of the Baghdad government. Though he has lost his hold on Kurdistan in the north and over parts of the Shi'ite south, he has bottled up the insurgents in both regions so they do not threaten his rule. Every step he takes has been aimed at buttressing his authority. He rebuilt Baghdad and the central region, where his Sunni Muslim backers hold sway; he gives government workers and members of the armed forces regular pay increases and relentlessly bombards the nation with...
...With the recent war, [with] a lot of jokes people make about Arabs and Iraqis you don't know whether to laugh or to be offended," says Al-Attar, who is Iraqi. "You are often faced with the conflict--should I laugh or says something...
...lampposts") has the flip quality of a travel piece. In Amman, Jordan, violently pro-Saddam, the streets "hummed with a mean joy. At last somebody was killing Jews." In Tel Aviv, he discovers women who deck their gas-mask kits in velvet. After the 100-hour land war, incinerated Iraqi corpses burn off the vapors of his irony; in liberated Kuwait City, he tracks through apartments fouled by soldiers' dung. Back in postwar Baghdad: bullyboys, profiteers and "the total degradation of a people...
...widespread fear that the U.S. will be pulled into deeper involvement in the Bosnian bloodbath. Serbs, or Muslims eager for American intervention, might shoot down a cargo plane, triggering a military response. One U.S. congressional staff member also draws a parallel to air drops of supplies to Iraqi Kurds in 1991; they proved ineffective, and the U.S. and allies had to send in ground troops to succor the Kurds. Clinton stoutly insists that the operation will be strictly temporary and that "it would be a great mistake to read this . . . as some initial foray toward a wider military role...