Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crusaders, was a Kurd. But this time, they have been helped by a convergence of propitious factors. Because Baghdad at first considered the unrest in the Shi'ite areas more threatening, it moved troops in the north southward, giving the guerrillas a more open field. Popular disgust with Saddam's disastrous Kuwaiti adventure fertilized the ground. "Uprising is an art," says Jalal Talabani, Damascus-based leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. "There must be a climate...
While Iraqi Kurds have been speaking with increasing confidence that their day has come, Saddam has surely not finished fighting them. If his forces are able to consolidate their gains in the south, they will soon turn their guns on the rebels in the north. After a permanent truce is reached with the allies, Saddam will presumably be able to fly his combat planes again and thus bomb the Kurds from...
...course, Saddam may not last long enough to see the battle out. The allies continue to hope that one of his officers will depose him. Many Kurdish leaders say they would be happy to work with a military junta. According to Zebari, his group has even written to army commanders pledging support for a military coup. Yet a new man in a uniform in Baghdad might not be any better for the Kurds than the old one. "The military establishment in Iraq has a very bad history," says Sami Abdul Rahman, leader of the Kurdistan Popular Democratic Party. "They...
...armed forces, which are dominated by Sunni Arabs, are also aware that both the Shi'ites and the Kurds are revolting not just against Saddam but against Sunni subjugation as well. Preserving Sunni predominance would thus require quashing the rebels' aspirations. For the Kurds, a capital and a fortune may yet prove as illusory as those slaves...
...America's smart weapons make Soviet hardware look bad, there is another lesson for Moscow and Beijing to learn -- one far less pleasing to the West. Saddam Hussein's mobile missile launchers proved very difficult to counter, and even his primitive Scuds, though little more than terror weapons, indicated the potential effectiveness of ballistic missiles. As a result, the Soviets and Chinese are now likely to base their defense even more heavily on missiles and nuclear weapons...