Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saddam's aim is plainly to fulfill the letter of U.N. law by coming clean about Iraq's unconventional-weapons programs in order to get the sanctions lifted. But monitors like Ekeus suspect he has no intention of obeying the spirit of the ban. Iraq may already be secretly reviving its long-range missile program. Scientists continue to pursue ballistic-missile research, not only at sites destroyed during the war and rebuilt, such as the Saad 16 research and development center near Mosul, but in new facilities such as Ibn al-Haytham lab, constructed near Baghdad. While U.N. resolutions allow...
SHOPPING NETWORK. There are clear indications that Saddam has reopened his high-tech procurement network. In June 1993 the Egyptian navy intercepted a freighter carrying hydrochloric acid from India outside the Gulf of Aqaba. Experts said Iraq could use the chemical for uranium enrichment...
...investigating half a dozen cases in which Iraq allegedly broke sanctions. However, "for every case we see," says one of the agents, "there's probably a hundred potential violators out there." According to congressional investigators, many front companies established in the late 1980s to purchase parts and technology for Saddam's weapons programs continue to operate in France, Switzerland, Germany, Britain and the U.S. Last month American customs agents arrested a pair of Jordanian nationals, Al. M. Harb and his wife Rula Saba Harb, on charges of using a home-based front company in Midlothian, Virginia, to circumvent the Iraqi...
Considering the potentially dire consequences -- economic, military and diplomatic -- of a hasty return to doing business with Iraq, the U.S. wants to err on the side of caution. That is also the position of the U.N. inspectors, who bear primary responsibility for making sure that Saddam's infernal death machine does not spring back to life. If the sanctions are lifted and the Iraqis renege on their promises, putting the restrictions back again may prove to be too little, too late...
...Saddam Hussein...