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...tunnels, searching for clues that would unravel the mysteries of Saddam's weapons program. Soldiers explored the Old Palace, imagining what it would be like to take a shower in the gold-and-marble bathrooms. It turns out that Saddam favored Colgate toothpaste and French cuffs; Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz read both Henry Kissinger and Danielle Steel. There were skinny lions, cheetahs and bears in pens on the grounds of one palace, which had 64 bathrooms. The Los Angeles Times reported that soldiers found a sheep on the grounds and fed it to the cats...
...small bands of loyalists cling to control of the cities, from which they hope to drag the U.S. into a frustrating, Vietnam-style guerrilla conflict. "People say to me, 'You are not the Vietnamese. You have no jungles and swamps to hide in,'" Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told one interviewer last year. "I reply, 'Let our cities be our swamps and our buildings be our jungles...
...These forays, the villagers say, are a means to test the border villages' resolve and sympathies. According to Tariq, one of 50,000 peshmerga (one who faces death) stationed on Kurdistan's front lines with Iraq, the Iraqis are "taking the pulse of the people to see whether they are with the regime or not." The ultimate aim, he says, is to gain advantage and push deeper into the Kurdish region. Baghdad's orders not to engage any opposition, says communist commanderRahim Samin Omer, allows them deniability. "When they see men approaching they withdraw and say they were only doing...
...first gulf War, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker issued a warning to Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz: If Iraq attempted to use unconventional weapons against allied forces, the U.S. would proceed to Baghdad and destroy Saddam's regime. Though the Iraqis used chemical weapons against Iranian forces and rebellious Kurds, Baker's promise was enough to persuade Saddam to hold back during Desert Storm. Now that the current Administration has declared that regime change is its goal, he may not feel so gun-shy. Western military officials and longtime Saddam watchers suggest he won't uncork his deadliest weapons...
...They will be received with bullets, not flowers." Tariq Aziz,Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, on the response to a U.S. attack...