Word: weaponeering
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Iraq’s recent announcement that it would accept United Nations weapon inspectors on its soil pursuant to U.N. Security Council resolutions and without conditions marks a potential turning point in the recent American drive to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Although many nations have lauded Iraq’s gesture and argued against any further action either by the U.N. or the United States, Hussein must not simply be taken at his word...
...badly did Bush lose in his U.N. gamble? Assuming weapons inspectors return to Iraq—and the United States would be hard pressed not to at least give them a chance—it could be as long as eight months before the inspectors made preliminary conclusions, according to a report in the Washington Post. Already Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has tried to salvage the failure by calling on Congress to give the go-ahead for war regardless of any U.N. resolutions. Without immediate action, Bush will lose the use of the Iraqi invasion as a political...
...might have sincerely believed that” the raid was a strictly defensive maneuver. Meanwhile, revelations from U.S. experts lent credence to this argument. Many State Department and intelligence officials believed that Hussein had obtained sufficient quantities of enriched uranium and specialized equipment to construct a nuclear weapon by the end of 1981—as well as multiple bombs by mid-decade...
...civilization once again confronts Hussein’s voracious appetite for weapons of mass murder, the protestations of those opposed to a pre-emptive strike sound all too familiar. Despite the mountains of evidence indicting the Iraqi government as a grave threat to American and world security—including links to terrorists such as the now-deceased Abu Nidal and terror groups such as al Qaeda, known stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons, reports from Iraq’s former bomb-maker that its scientists could be months away from producing a nuclear weapon, Hussein’s gassing...
...Crimson led 26-24, before a big kill by junior outside hitter Alyson Coler shifted the momentum to UNH. Coler, the Wildcats’ most effective weapon, posted a match-high 27 kills along with 13 digs...