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...already begun. Just as they did before the 1991 Gulf War, British and American commanders are doing everything they can to soften up Iraq for invasion. "We're on the offensive," says a senior Western diplomat in neighboring Kuwait. "We're in there. This war starts on our terms...
...question is, Can anyone get the money back? Kuwait has tried for years. After allied troops expelled the Iraqis from Kuwait in 1991, the country launched a global dragnet to attach Iraqi assets. But little was ever recovered beyond $16 billion in reparations garnisheed from the proceeds of Iraq's official U.N. oil sales. As Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz suggested last week in testimony before Congress, any money that is found might also be used to defray the billions of dollars in costs the U.S. will incur if it invades Iraq. "There's a lot of money out there...
...very much in business. With 200,000 U.S. and British troops stationed in the Persian Gulf ready to move on Iraq, authorities feared that he would activate sleeper cells in the gulf states or recruit fresh volunteers for suicide attacks against U.S. military targets. His network of agents in Kuwait (where he was born to a Pakistani father) and in Qatar--two key staging posts for the U.S. command--are still intact, intelligence experts say. "This is the planner, the key planner of 9/11 and probably al-Qaeda's most active planner right up until his capture," says a White...
Krauthammer is completely wrong. A war against Iraq has nothing to do with establishing a democracy in the Middle East. Is Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Kuwait a democracy? Not at all. Each of these countries has been dependent on American aid for decades. The war will be about political power, economics, personal revenge and maybe the influence of right-wing evangelism on U.S. foreign policy but not about democracy. WALTER SCHAEFER Frankfurt...
...Iraq has residual stocks of chemical and biological weapons left over from its war with Iran, they don't believe Saddam's regime is an imminent threat to its neighbors, much less to the West. Iraq's military is considerably weaker now than when it was driven out of Kuwait a decade ago, they argue, and it is unable even to keep hostile aircraft out of Iraqi airspace in the "no-fly" zones. And Bush administration efforts to posit a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda simply don't hold water with the European intelligence agencies. Saddam, in the minds...