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...Intelligence officials know there is grumbling about their performance in the recent past. In the years before the Ayatullah Khomeini came to power, the CIA failed to gauge the depth of resistance to the Shah among the people of Iran. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait last year also caught the U.S. by surprise. "The war might have been avoided if the President had been told six months earlier that this man is thinking of invading his neighbors," says Senator Boren...
...ability to understand a rapidly changing international scene. His latest mistake: publicly concluding that Gennadi Yanayev and his co- conspirators were "the men in charge" and calling sanctions "premature." This follows Mitterrand's efforts to broker a peace plan just hours before the deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, and his vain / attempt to halt German unification...
...victorious allied march into Kuwait City in the wake of Desert Storm was spearheaded by a contingent of returning Kuwaitis. Few if any noticed, however, that the Kuwaitis were riding atop Yugoslavian M-84 battle tanks -- upgraded versions of the Soviets' workhorse T-72 -- complete with East European backup personnel. Sixty-four such tanks and crews had been purchased, financed and supplied to the Desert Storm coalition forces by B.C.C.I...
...might end up among the losers. During the last five months of 1990, largely under the influence of Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet Union had sided with the U.S. -- and most of the rest of the world -- in demanding that Saddam Hussein withdraw his army of occupation from Kuwait. For reformers like Shevardnadze, Saddam was a grotesque example of the kind of Third World thug whom the Kremlin had too often supported over the decades. One of Yeltsin's closest deputies, the foreign minister of the Russian Federation, Andrei Kozyrev, called Saddam "the child of our totalitarianism...
...release of McCarthy and Tracy seemed to indicate that key players in the Middle East are finally tiring of the hostage sweepstakes. Since Iraq's ill- fated invasion of Kuwait a year ago, the currency of the hostages has been sharply devalued. Such longtime sponsors of terrorist activities as Iran and Syria now regard the hostages as a bothersome obstacle to the renewal of ties with the West. The faceless abductors themselves are reaping diminishing returns from the hiding, feeding and clothing of captives. One of the initial impulses that guided Islamic Jihad's first seizures back in the early...