Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...departed--driving fast, well before dawn-- they left three things behind. The first was the rent, four months' worth paid in advance. Second was hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of computers, scramblers and satellite phones, as well as equipment used by a TV-radio station that beamed anti-Saddam propaganda into Iraq 11 hours each day. Finally, they also left behind 1,500 members of the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition group based in Erbil, to whom the CIA had given financing, arms and--the I.N.C. now claims--an implicit understanding that if anything went wrong, these U.S. allies...
...white-haired foreign correspondent. "He's the quintessential gonzo reporter." A longtime Nairobi bureau chief, Wilde was based in Istanbul during the Gulf War, during which he covered the plight of the Kurds. This week he delivers that story's next chapter, slipping into Kurdistan to report on Saddam Hussein's attack on the town of Erbil. The report includes an exclusive interview with Massoud Barzani, the head of the Kurdish faction allied with Iraq. "He had to negotiate for the interview," says an amazed Chua-Eoan of Wilde. "But the Kurds remembered his story from five years...
...Does that mean that as President you'd hesitate to bomb Saddam Hussein every now and then?" I asked...
John said he'd probably be able to make an exception to catch-and-release in Saddam's case. But there was a risk, he said, that he'd nod off for a nap while the subject was being discussed. He told me that his wife Jean sometimes starts to say something to him and then quietly tiptoes away. If he got to the White House, he must have been thinking, someone like the Secretary of State might have to take Jean's role...
Maybe that wouldn't be so bad, I told John. After all, Presidents who are wide awake haven't done all that well dealing with Saddam. I also try to see both sides of the issue...