Word: iraqis
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...influence in the region. Neither prospect has disappeared. With Bush in Houston trying to reinvigorate his political fortunes, it was impossible to escape cynical questions about what was for real -- and what was for political effect. No more convincing was the sudden European eagerness to provide air protection to Iraqi Muslims solely on humanitarian grounds; Europeans have not yet made a similar commitment to the Slavic Muslims in neighboring Bosnia...
...declare a "no-fly zone" across the southern third of the country. The force is to fly reconnaissance missions over a marshy region where Western officials say Saddam Hussein pursues a policy of genocide against opponents of his regime. The goal will be to close the sky to Iraqi flights. "We're going to monitor and watch what he's doing there," said U.S. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, and that means "he has to stop flying...
...allied action was prompted by evidence that 70 Iraqi combat aircraft were being used to attack Shi'ite villages and rebel camps in the swamps and islands in the Basra region, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into the gulf. That violates a U.N. resolution, passed after the Gulf War, prohibiting Saddam's "repression" of his own people. A similar protection zone has been in effect in northern Kurdish regions since April...
Military experts warn that limited reconnaissance missions can lead to air and ground combat. "The air force will argue that to remove the risk of < losses, they would like to take out some if not all of the Iraqi air defenses again," says Colonel Andrew Duncan of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "Then you're on the slippery slope to escalation." But the allies may have concluded that their best tactic is to squeeze Saddam between rebellious Kurds to the north and hostile Shi'ites to the south. (See related story on page...
...training exercises. Saddam may think that the President's political weakness at home will make it more difficult for him to muster support for renewed action against Iraq -- and at the same time more damaging for him to give the impression of being powerless in the face of Iraqi provocations. Bush may have been thinking along & the same lines last week when he insisted that Saddam will be made to comply with all terms of the cease-fire. Said the President: "He may not know it, but he's going to do it." (See related story on page...