Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest flap over the nationalities of inspectors could have been trumped up, Zilinskas believes, because they were getting close to evidence that directly linked Saddam with the germ-weapons program. The inspectors are particularly interested in locating 25 warheads filled with poisons that have been shuttled around the country since the Gulf War. They are big--about 10 ft. long and 3 ft. wide--and could be fired atop Al-Hussein missiles with a 400-mile range...
...according to Charles Duelfer, the American who is deputy chief weapons inspector of the Special Commission. He says they are operated by the national intelligence service, Mukhabarat; the Amn al-Khass, a security unit dedicated to hiding information; and the Special Republican Guards, troops responsible for the security of Saddam, his offices and palaces. Iraq routinely bars the U.N. from what it calls "presidential-residential" buildings, saying they are out of bounds. When Iraqi officials talk up the need for the inspectors to respect "the sovereignty of Iraq," they mean: Stay out of secret military and intelligence bases and presidential...
President Clinton says it should be different this time. The inspectors, he said last week, "must be able to proceed with their work without interference, to find, to destroy, to prevent Iraq from rebuilding nuclear, chemical and biological weapons." But that is what Saddam agreed to after his defeat in 1991, so no one can assume he means it this time. The U.S. does have the muscle in place in the gulf to hit Saddam with bombs and missiles if he does not comply with U.N. orders. Washington says it will wait and see. But is Clinton ready to bomb...
...pressure was on Primakov once more. But this time he was sure he could keep the guns silent. "I think it's going to work out," he said confidently, sliding a one-page statement across the table to U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that in effect spelled out Saddam Hussein's agreement to allow United Nations inspectors back into Iraq...
Call it diplomacy on the fly. By expelling the inspectors two weeks ago, Saddam had sparked the tensest standoff with the U.S. since the Gulf War. President Clinton had threatened a massive attack against Iraq, but only Britain was willing to go along with it. The other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council--Russia, France and China--opposed military action, as did every country in the Middle East. That left diplomacy, which the White House began intensely two weekends ago when Clinton telephoned Russian President Boris Yeltsin to give him the green light to find...