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...Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia has aided aggression against Bosnia's Muslims and Croats every step of the way in the interest of carving out a Greater Serbia. The Yugoslav breakup has spawned atrocities on all sides, but over the long haul this war, like Iraq's swallowing of Kuwait, is the fault of one big bully...
...Saddam. In part, it was. Saddam relented in the face of signs that the U.S. was reaching for its guns. Over the weekend, with the carrier Independence already in the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon moved the Saratoga to the eastern Mediterranean and dispatched Patriot launchers and missiles to Kuwait. But Baghdad's two-steps- forward-one-step-back confrontation with Washington allowed Saddam for the first time have a say in the makeup of a U.N. inspection team. It also let him claim a triumph over the U.S. By the time the U.N. team entered the building on Tuesday...
Bush has pointedly left open the possibility of future military action. To back up his point, on Friday the Pentagon announced that the U.S. will send 2,400 Army troops to Kuwait over the next three weeks for 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...
...information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, refused to renew an agreement allowing relief workers to operate in Iraq, spurned a U.N. deal that would allow him to sell $1.6 billion in oil to finance food and humanitarian aid, and rejected a new U.N.-demarcated border with Kuwait. He has even stepped up operations against Shi'ite Muslim rebels in the south. In Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Iraq, gun, grenade and car-bomb attacks have targeted U.N. guards, one of whom was killed. Saddam blames the Kurds, but the U.N. rejects that claim and says he is responsible...
Before King Hussein tightened oversight, U.S. intelligence analysts estimate, from 35 to 50 companies in Amman handled the business, many of them Iraqi fronts established after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait two years ago. Al- Bawadi Co., for example, an Amman importer of European goods, has been identified by Western intelligence as the creation of Saddam's half brother Ibrahim al-Tikriti, who directs Iraq's internal security. Arabco, which deals in military equipment, was also identified by Western intelligence as a firm run by Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel. With an estimated $30 billion stashed in foreign...