Word: waller
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...standoff in the fall. But this time, Washington will find it even more difficult to rouse a posse to go after him. "By ending talks with the U.N. inspectors, Iraq is setting things up for a confrontation in October when sanctions come up for review," says TIME correspondent Doug Waller. "Baghdad is counting on support from France, China and Russia for an end to sanctions, and the U.S. will face an even bigger fight this time around...
...Douglas Waller. With reporting by Lisa Beyer/Jerusalem
...Douglas Waller and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...missile a U.S. F-16 fired on Iraq on Tuesday did indeed miss the radar station by some 11 miles and land in a civilian reservoir, as the Iraqis have claimed. How did a sophisticated radar-tracking missile hit water and not its target? TIME National Security correspondent Douglas Waller says that the Iraqi operator would have merely sent "a squirt" of radar: enough to set off the British planes' alarms but not enough for the F-16's missile to draw a good bead on the source...
...that's just as well. "Everyone's still waiting to see if another shoe will drop, if Iraq will kick out an inspection team or something," Waller says, "But so far it seems to be what the U.S. thinks and hopes it is -- just a random incident." This has happened several times in the five years that the U.S. has been patrolling the no-fly zone, and it will probably happen again. Waller points out that aside from some low-wattage grumbling this week, Iraq's recent behavior suggests a desire to cooperate with the U.N. With no casualties...