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Despite all this, there are many weak spots in the embargo. Western intelligence officials have learned that Saddam stockpiled rice, wheat and other foods before invading Kuwait, and the Iraqi army's plundering of Kuwaiti warehouses has increased Iraq's supplies substantially. Besides, Iraq has had a record harvest this year; the markets contain plenty of fruits and vegetables. One reason for the bountiful supplies is that Saddam's government has eased many controls on farmers and increased food prices. Higher prices have also inspired Iranian and Turkish smugglers to supply the black market...
Assuming even this objection could be overridden, a simple trade of the kind implied by Sultan's statement would probably be insufficient for the reason CIA Director Webster stated: Saddam's weapons. "We are ready for a long-term U.S. or U.N. presence in our country," says a Kuwaiti aide to the exiled Emir, "but we wouldn't deal on the islands or the oil unless Iraq's war- fighting capacities are crippled. If Saddam gets something from us that he can portray as a victory, then the rest of the world is entitled to an even greater and longer...
...Minister of Housing. Ariel Sharon has an apparent mandate to treat zoning as the conduct of war by other means. He is busily creating "new facts," in the form of Jewish settlements, on the West Bank. Saddam too is in the new-facts business with his systematic obliteration of Kuwaiti nationhood...
...that it needed the territory for defense against neighboring states that have never recognized its right to exist and often threatened to destroy "the Zionist entity." No one, not even Ayatullah Khomeini, has ever proposed to wipe Iraq off the map. Nor can Iraq conceivably claim that it needs Kuwaiti ( territory for defense. It fought off Iranian assaults quite effectively throughout eight years of war without making any use of Kuwaiti soil...
...Israel has followed harsh policies in the West Bank and Gaza, particularly in efforts during the past three years to suppress the intifadeh. But its sternness cannot be compared with the tales told by Kuwaiti refugees about looting, rape, torture, beheadings and other summary executions by Iraqi soldiers. That the outside world has to rely on refugees' stories to learn what is happening in Kuwait is itself significant. Reporters and photographers roam the Israeli-occupied territories, albeit with many restrictions imposed by the army, and report what they see and hear; they are not allowed into Kuwait...