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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Hours after an Iraqi missile was fired at a U.S. fighter, the Pentagon upped the ante by sending F-117 stealth fighters and two B-52s to the Persian Gulf region in response to the latest provocation by Saddam Hussein. "The Pentagon is ready to send in aircraft with pilots, which can obviously be more dangerous than firing cruise missiles," TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says. "But that is the only way to get rid of the Iraqi surface-to-air defense missiles." The move came in response to an Iraqi missile launched...
...northern section of Iraq has been off limits to Saddam's forces since shortly after the end of the Persian Gulf War. That was when the U.S. and its allies established an enclave where the 4 million Kurds would be protected from Saddam. The Kurds rebelled against Baghdad at the end of the war, hoping the moment was ripe for them to set up an independent country. Iraqi forces were on their way to crushing the rebellion when the Western powers drew a line just south of Erbil and told Saddam not to cross...
...overseas passport numbers, travel itineraries of foreign nationals, secret cables from spies on the ground, reports from friendly foreign intelligence services and phone intercepts worldwide. CIA sources tell Waller that this method has worked before: in 1991, as the center was tracking Saddam Hussein's military buildup before the Persian Gulf War, the CIA computers were able to identify a group of potential Iraqi terrorists before they even attempted an attack on American targets. By tracking one of the terrorists, an Iraqi military intelligence officer, the agents discovered intimate details of many of the terror cells that Saddam had deployed...
...Estaing even penned an erotic novel. Now a novella by FRANCOIS MITTERRAND, written in 1940 when he was 23 and in the army, has been auctioned for $7,600. Premier Accord is the story of a young man's love for Elsa, who is "supple, gay, effervescent...a Persian at the sword, her pink curves like a jar of hair cream." Pardon...
...specific role of the Air Force in Dhahran is to enforce the no-fly zone imposed on southern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War. But more generally, America's mission in the Persian Gulf is to protect the flow of oil. The gulf states produce two-thirds of the world's supply, so their stability is vital to the global economy. As the U.S. sees it, the biggest threats to that stability are Iraq and Iran, two powerful countries with ambitions to someday dominate the region. The U.S. policy of keeping both Iraq and Iran in check is known...