Word: shatt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Government officials insist the Saddam River project, a 350-mile canal linking Baghdad with the Shatt al-Arab waterway south of Basra, is intended only to add 1.5 million acres to Iraq's arable land. Arif al-Delaimi, chief engineer on the project, says the southern portion of the canal was completed in the 1980s and the marshes have been drying up ever since. Instead of driving the inhabitants out, he says, the government has been resettling them around artificial lakes. But Andrew Whitley, executive director of Middle East Watch says, "The land under the water is of little agricultural...
...Kurds resumed their fight, this time with the backing of the Shah of Iran. But they were abandoned when the Shah and Saddam Hussein cut a deal. Iran agreed to halt aid to the Kurds, and in exchange Iraq agreed to share sovereignty of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, which provides access to the Persian Gulf...
...paradox evident here points to the central problematic of Pan-Arabism: its conditional nature. One can only remain an Arab until one deviates from a vision of the "Arab nation" extending from the Atlantic to the Shatt-al-Arab. At the very least, this dynamic fails to acknowledge cultural differences among Arabs and, at the very worst, it admits of no dissent from dominant political dogmas...
...authors explore many other reasons for Saddam's invasion. They repeat the same sentence six times in making their point. You can't miss the fact that Iraq only has 26 miles of natural coastline and Iraqis can only access the Persian Gulf through the Shatt al-Arab waterway which has been closed since the Iran-Iraq...