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Jul 2000
time: 07:27
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Reuters : An Iraqi Shi'ite leader, Abdul Majid al-Kuhi, was murdered in Najaf today.
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Promethus
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Battle Creek, Michigan
Jan 2002
time: 00:27
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Heavy Fighting for Desert Base at Syria Border
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, April 10 — Out of sight of television cameras, some of the heaviest fighting in Iraq has been raging for nearly three weeks near the town of Qaim on the Syrian border, where American Green Berets and British commandos have been attacking units of Iraq's Special Republican Guard and Special Security Services, according to senior military and defense officials.
The Iraqi forces in the area, near the Euphrates River and alongside a rail line, have been defending a large compound that includes phosphate fertilizer and water treatment plants. American officials say the sheer tenacity of the Iraqi fighters has led them to suspect that they may be defending Scud missiles or other illicit weapons.
The Qaim area, nearly 200 miles northwest of Baghdad along the most direct route from the Iraqi capital to Syria, was a launching point for Iraqi ballistic missile attacks during the 1991 Persian Gulf war. It was also home to a plant used by Iraq in 1980's for uranium processing, and it has been identified since by American officials as a possible site for any effort to revive Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
The reported doggedness of the Iraqi resistance has prompted some speculation within the Bush administration that the Iraqi forces might be defending members of the Iraqi leadership trying to flee to Syria. But defense officials said it was more likely they were trying to shield weapons or weapons programs.
"They're protecting something, that's for sure," one senior American military official said. For now, he said, the main objective of the United States is "to keep their head down so they can't fire anything off."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/i...ial/11TOWN.html
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My Wife Hates CIV
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Michigan
Jan 1970
time: 05:27
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proof that france has been training/helping iraq!!!!!
MOSUL, Iraq — The northern city of Mosul fell into U.S. and Kurdish hands Friday after an entire corps of the Iraqi army *surrendered*.
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Ned
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of Aptos, CA
Oct 1999
time: 21:27
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On CNN.Com (I cannot post the link because my browser is not showing the URL):
An emerging story is the extent to which the Iraqi regime intimidated the press and those who cooperated with it. Here is the concluding part of the story now on CNN.com.
"CNN had staff members in Baghdad until about three weeks ago, when they were expelled by Iraqi authorities as the coalition launched airstrikes on the Iraqi capital. After the expulsion, other international media outlets were warned that any of their staff members in Baghdad who helped CNN cover the war would be jailed and charged with spying for the CIA, Jordan said.
However, for unknown reasons, the Iraqi government did not complain when CNN broadcast footage from Arab TV networks, he said.
Jordan: Iraq tortured, killed those who helped CNN
In an article published in Friday's editions of The New York Times, Jordan outlined incidents in which Iraqi officials had intimidated, tortured and killed people who had worked for CNN or helped the network with its coverage in Iraq. Those incidents have never before been revealed because they could have put people in jeopardy, Jordan said.
In the mid-1990s, a Iraqi cameraman working for CNN was abducted, held for weeks and subjected to electroshock torture in a secret police headquarters when he refused to confirm that Jordan was the CIA station chief in Iraq, Jordan said.
Also, a Kuwaiti woman, Asrar Qabandi, who had talked to CNN by telephone during Iraq's occupation of her country in 1990, was captured by Iraqi secret police. On the eve of the U.S.-led campaign, she was killed, her body torn limb from limb and the body parts left on the doorstep of her family's home, Jordan said.
Jordan also said that in 1995, Saddam Hussein's son, Uday, had told him that he planned to assassinate his two brothers-in-law who had defected from Iraq to Jordan. In addition, Uday said, he planned to kill Jordan's King Hussein, who had given them asylum.
Eason Jordan said he told King Hussein of the plot, but the king dismissed it as "a madman's rant." The Jordanian monarch was not harmed, but Uday's brothers-in-law were lured back to Iraq and killed several months later. "
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