Word: persian
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...announce last week that it was starting a new buildup of military equipment and supplies in the Persian Gulf, as well as dispatching 1,400 troops to the Kuwaiti desert for war games? Largely, it would seem, to tout the Clinton Administration's alertness to any new military threat from Iraq--a threat that Iraq's neighbors, including Kuwait, could discern no sign of. Moreover, if Saddam Hussein did order any menacing maneuvers, he might only dramatize the last thing he wants to point out: the rapid decline of his strength as an international bogeyman...
Heeding warnings from two high-level Iraqi defectors that Saddam Hussein has recently considered attacking Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. sent ships carrying supplies and equipment to the Persian Gulf and ordered 1,400 troops to Kuwait for military maneuvers. Pentagon officials expressed concern about elite Iraqi forces conducting "unusual training activities" around Baghdad...
Infowar evolved with every recent U.S. military foray. In the first day of the Persian Gulf War, Air Force stealth planes armed with precision-guided munitions blinded Saddam by knocking out his communications network and electrical power in Baghdad. The Pentagon launched a sophisticated psy-ops campaign against Haiti's military regime to restore deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Using market-research surveys, the Army's 4th Psychological Operations Group divided Haiti's population into 20 target groups and bombarded them with hundreds of thousands of pro-Aristide leaflets appealing to their particular affinities. Before U.S. intervention, the CIA made...
Commando Solo has already been battle-tested by the 193rd Special Operations Group, a Pennsylvania Air National Guard unit. During the Persian Gulf War, the plane's crew broadcast radio reports to Iraqi soldiers eager to hear uncensored news of the war, including some of the next areas to be targeted by U.S. bombers. As a result, many Iraqi soldiers deserted those positions. To prepare Haiti for the U.S. intervention there, Commando Solo beamed in radio and TV messages from deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Each broadcast began with the crow of a rooster, the symbol of Aristide's political...
...Standard & Poor's 500 list was down 1.10 to 558.11. Buffeted by heavy selling of technology stocks, the Nasdaq composite index fell 11.58 to 1,019.70. Gold was down 30 cents to $384.25.Photographs: Simpson pool photo by Rick Meyer/REUTERS Crash from RTV/REUTERS Jerusalem by Jim Hollander/REUTERS Persian Gulf soldier by Hayne Palmour/AP Kevorkian by Steve Liss for TIME Dole by Scott Troyanos/AP Chain gang by Christopher Bell/Huntsville Times-AP Gates by Robert Sorbo/AP