Word: lashing
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...terrorist attack would be one way for him to lash out. According to U.S. intelligence officials, suspected terrorists have been seen casing U.S. and Saudi facilities in various places around the world. Two weeks ago, Riyadh expelled an undisclosed number of Iraqi, Jordanian and Yemeni diplomats for allegedly spying on foreign forces and passing the information on to Baghdad and terrorist groups. To tighten security, the U.S. military has moved some of its troops from hotels to more remote quarters. Security around Saudi oil fields and refineries has also been stepped...
Oziel did what any local celebrity would do: he called a press conference. Protesting that he was bound by professional ethics not to discuss the case, he proceeded to lash out at Smyth for making "totally false, bizarre and defamatory allegations." He did not deny that Smyth was his lover but insisted that she was never his patient and added that she could not have eavesdropped on any confessions because of the layout of his office. None of that explained why shortly after those sessions, he allowed Smyth to move into his home (with his wife and daughters) to calm...
...some point, the White House believes, Saddam's increasingly untenable situation will force him to make a choice: either to lash out militarily or to seek a diplomatic compromise. Some experts detected a few feeble hints last week that he might be willing to negotiate, or was at least trying to buy time. "Saddam is not interested in going down in flames," one official said. "He's interested in power. So if he calculates that his gamble in Kuwait is not working, he may try to cut his losses and conserve his forces for another day." Washington rejected Saddam...
Farfetched? Not according to Israeli intelligence, which considers it "likely" that Saddam will attempt to lash out at Israel if he is attacked by the U.S. Although Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declared last week that Israel "lives in this storm but has no part in it," he has warned his countrymen that they have entered a "period of emergency." In an interview on Israeli television, Shamir said Saddam "wants to involve us in the current confrontation." Defense Minister Moshe Arens concurs: "If somebody in Iraq decides to push a button and launch a ballistic missile, that missile will probably land...
...shooting war is avoided now, it may come later. When and if the economic stranglehold hits Iraq hard -- perhaps in three to four months -- it is entirely possible that rather than capitulate, Saddam will lash out militarily. No matter how supportive the public may be of Bush's intervention today, its willingness to tolerate flag-draped coffins returning to the U.S. for weeks on end is at best problematic. "This is not Panama or Grenada," says a man who has served both Reagan and Bush. "This is a deal with no known end," and the long haul is not America...