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...resolution strongly criticizing the Israeli attack, after U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim reproached it as a “clear contravention of international law.” Even U.S. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, one of the Reagan Administration’s staunchest supporters of Israel, was forced to admonish the raid. “The means Israel chose to quiet its fears,” she told the Security Council, “have hurt, not helped, the peace and security of the area...
President Reagan’s comments, however, were much more accommodating to the Israeli position. He said, quite notably, that Israel “might have sincerely believed that” the raid was a strictly defensive maneuver. Meanwhile, revelations from U.S. experts lent credence to this argument. Many State Department and intelligence officials believed that Hussein had obtained sufficient quantities of enriched uranium and specialized equipment to construct a nuclear weapon by the end of 1981—as well as multiple bombs by mid-decade...
...face opposition to a pre-emptive strike from some of Congress’s more committed left-wingers and partisan Democrats. As he continues to “make the case” before U.S. lawmakers, Bush would be well-served to mention Israel’s 1981 raid as clear evidence that pre-emption can be a vital means of national, regional and global self-defense. Ultimately, any senator or congressman who still believes that America should merely work to “contain” or “box in” Hussein’s murderous...
...whatsoever of [Saddam Hussein's] compliance with U.N. resolutions." SPAIN Biting Batasuna Basque nationalists formed blockades around the offices of Batasuna, the political wing of the separatist group eta, as riot police enforced a court order to close down the organization that authorities say funded and assisted terrorists. Police raided offices in five cities in northern Spain's Basque region and fought crowds of up to 300 with batons and rubber bullets. Here Batasuna's Eusebio Lasa resists in his own way. After a lopsided vote in parliament, the cabinet agreed to ask the Supreme Court to ban the party...
...there he headed to Afghanistan to train with Harakat-ul Jihad, then to Chechnya, where he lost a leg in a firefight with Russian special forces, and finally to Kosovo to help fight the Serbs. He describes with childlike glee his love of weapons and tactics. A daring nighttime raid on a Russian bunker becomes a brutal game when he and his comrades strip and take the encampment bare-chested, armed only with knives. For Collins, war is more of a creative challenge than a religious obligation. He claims he gave up the jihad in 1996 to stop terrorism because...