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...chemical-weapons program. According to Washington, Baghdad had almost 100 different major weapons programs under way before the gulf war began. The effort employed 500,000 people, which, in a country of 18 million, made the defense industry far and away Iraq's largest employer. One nuclear complex in Thaji, north of Baghdad, comprised 1,000 buildings and covered an area the size of the District of Columbia. U.S. officials also disclosed more specifics about Iraq's uranium-enrichment programs, the linchpin of Baghdad's efforts to develop an atom bomb. In addition to the three methods for separating uranium...
...often had no water and no fuel," said the goateed Kazak Thaji (Chief) Kussa In. "Sometimes we lived only on the animals' milk. Often we killed camels to get drinking water." Forty of the Thaji's party, including the youngest of his three wives, nine brothers, and two boys, aged one and five, were lost. One night while they slept in their tents at Urduk on the Tibetan frontier, the nomad refugees were attacked by Communists, who killed eight men and drove away 300 sheep, 13 camels and 25 horses. "But we killed ten Reds," said Thaji Kussa...
Some of Kussa In's followers hoped to go on to Mecca to give thanks to Allah. Others planned to get jobs as teamsters. And what of those who had fallen into the hands of the Reds? "The lucky ones," said Thaji Kussa In, "were shot...
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