Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cold war in that part of the world--when the KGB, for example, was making weapons drops off the coast of Aden for radical Palestinian guerrillas. During this period, he developed close working relationships with some of the U.S.'s least favorite rulers, most notoriously with Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. According to widespread but unconfirmed reports, he worked for the KGB at this time. Primakov never comments on the allegations, though the fact that his two top aides are both senior intelligence officers shows that he is very much at home with the world...
Washington wants Baghdad to believe it's about to start raining cruise missiles -- perhaps because fear of attack may impact more heavily on Saddam than an actual air strike would. That could be the thinking behind "military sources'" discussion of attack scenarios in the New York Times and a U.S. officer in Kuwait's loud hints that strikes are imminent...
...difficult to tell if this is just a sophisticated campaign to intimidate Saddam into backing down or if they're actually planning to attack," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The problem is that we don't seem to have an endgame -- cruise missiles are more effective as a means of intimidation than at delivering a result. Baghdad believes that short of landing troops there, nothing we do militarily is going to have an enormous impact on them." If the U.S. plans to proceed, President Clinton's scheduled departure Friday for a 10-day tour of Asia...
Last week, after Iraq announced it would halt U.N. weapons inspections, U.S. officials accelerated plans to dynamite Saddam Hussein into compliance. As the Pentagon refined its strategy, Defense Secretary William Cohen and National Security Adviser Samuel Berger hit the road to sell the plan to Arab and European leaders. While they got a frosty public response, officials say the private message was a tacit green light. Result: President Clinton may decide to hit Iraq without a U.N. vote, something that has bottled up attack plans in the past. The strike could come this week...
...does walking away -- which is why Thursday's noncommittal U.N. Security Council resolution suits Washington right now. The international body demanded Iraq resume cooperation with U.N. arms inspectors, but stopped short of threatening the use of force if Baghdad refuses. The U.S. is in no rush to respond to Saddam Hussein's latest defiance. "Unilateral military action by the U.S. will be opposed in the region, because Washington lacks a plan to get rid of Saddam and there's a great deal of Arab sympathy for the suffering of ordinary Iraqis," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod...