Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another full-fledged war began last week, complete with its own heavy weapons, intelligence reports and international team of experts on strategy and tactics. This one was against an enemy no less redoubtable than Saddam's army: an oil slick estimated at 80 km (50 miles) long and 19 km (12 miles) wide that is breaking into pieces as it spreads down the Persian Gulf, its consistency like that of melted chocolate...
...Saddam Hussein may have engineered the spill to foil any allied plans for an amphibious invasion, but he was also probably trying to shut down seaside desalination plants that provide much of the fresh water for Saudi Arabia's Eastern province. Another target may have been Saudi power stations and oil refineries, which rely on seawater for cooling. Saddam's action will not prevent an invasion, says the Pentagon, but temporary shutdowns of plants and refineries seem inevitable...
...Soviet Union), Prager went to the U.S. as a student before embarking on a journalistic career that included long stints in Southeast Asia, where he covered the Vietnam War, and in the Middle East, where he was one of the first Western journalists, in 1975, to interview Saddam Hussein...
Much as they want to see Saddam killed, overthrown or tried for war crimes, several top Bush Administration advisers and Arab leaders are quietly pulling for some of Saddam's nastiest henchmen to survive in power. If Iraq's Sunni Muslim ruling elite were to be ousted wholesale, no alternative government could easily take charge of the country's highly politicized military and secret police. Fear of these institutions is the strongest glue binding Iraq's fractious populace, including its long-oppressed Shi'ite Muslim majority and its rebellious northern Kurds. "When the Iraqis stop fighting us," says a senior...
...reiteration of stale news. But the print press has since been playing aggressive catch-up. Last week's most eye-catching scoop came from Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame, who reported in the Washington Post that despite the allied air successes, confidential Pentagon assessments revealed that "important parts of Saddam Hussein's war machine have not yet been significantly hurt...