Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pantheon, Samir al-Khalil argues that Saddam's political forebears include not just Adolf Hitler -- the precedent George Bush likes to stress -- but Joseph Stalin as well. A corollary to the cult of personality is the principle that everyone but the leader is expendable. In addition to ensuring obedience, terror reminds the followers that they are cannon fodder in the struggle ("the mother of battles," as Saddam would have it) against all who oppose Numero Uno. The state itself becomes an instrument for achieving his goals, no matter how devastating to the interests of the people...
...Genie are stuffed with doomsday speculations. And one need not be born again to experience a frisson of apocalyptic concern. Also enjoying a new spasm of popularity is the 16th century astrologer Nostradamus, one of whose gnomic utterances predicts the arrival in 1999 of the "Great King of Terror" -- easily identifiable as Saddam, to those with vivid imaginations...
...Iraqi radio yesterday warned of upcoming anti-American terror strikes, declaring that "interests of the United States everywhere in the world will also be the target...
Other analysts think, however, that Saddam is saving his air force, and virtually every other weapon he has, for climactic battles later on. The planes could be used for terror attacks on Israeli and Saudi cities, where they might cause more death and destruction than the Scuds have to date. Given the strength of the allied air armada, those sorties would amount to suicide missions for some Iraqi pilots, but Saddam might be able to find willing martyrs. There is some speculation that he is already forming an Iraqi kamikaze corps...
...that proposition seems less clear-cut than it did even a few weeks ago. The horror in Vilnius is a reminder that there is still a lot of trouble, and terror, left in that giant country, not to mention almost 30,000 nuclear weapons. And if Gorbachev's relatively benign foreign policy collapses because of the vicious circle of internal revolt and repression, the West may find itself waging a Cold War II in the coming years. At a minimum, the Soviet Union may be less cooperative in the Security Council the next time Uncle Sam tries to round...