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'A fragile state': impressions from Iraq.(AT WAR)
Baghdad
YOU hear certain things over and over, as you spend some time in Iraq. You hear them from Iraqis, Americans, and others. What you hear is: We've made great progress in 2008. Al-Qaeda, the militias, and the rest of those lovelies are on the run. But our progress is fragile and reversible. If the coalition leaves too soon--before Iraq can defend itself--there will be hell to pay. If we leave too soon, our work will be for nought.
You also hear, Iraqis don't want Americans and other foreigners in their country. (That includes foreign terrorists too, of course.) No one likes to be occupied. At the same time, Iraqis are very, very worried about the ...
- IRAQ: SADDAM MEETS WITH REGIONAL BAATH PARTY LEADERS.
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database July 8, 2002 700+ words
President Saddam Husseyn has been conducting...various governorates of Iraq. The issues addressed...sources of concern but Saddam's responses ranged from...reported in the past. Saddam told the party officials...them about conditions in Iraq and the importance of...
- IRAQ: SADDAM'S EXECUTION AMPLIFIES NATION'S SPLIT PERSONALITY.
- News wire article from: Interpress Service December 29, 2006 700+ words
...executed. "I hate Saddam and always wished...Sulaymaniya in northern Iraq told IPS by telephone...the population of Iraq and arrested the...begun to see the Saddam days as a "golden...Kurds in northern Iraq. An estimated 180...adjourned until Jan. 8. Saddam's co-defendants...
- IRAQ - Saddam Trial Issue.
- Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy June 6, 2005 700+ words
...two months. A trial of Saddam could shed more light...are many in and outside Iraq who doubt that Saddam would ever be tried...embarrassed to face. So Saddam and his cohorts remain...start withdrawing from Iraq within 18 months, saying...
- IRAQ - Saddam Trial.
- Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map April 10, 2006 700+ words
...Abdul-Karim Qasem. Saddam argued that the Dujail...behest of Iran, which Iraq was fighting at the time...mid-afternoon, one of Saddam's lawyers, a Lebanese...now in the third war in Iraq in as many years. The first was against Saddam Hussein and his supposed...
- IRAQ: SADDAM'S EXECUTION MAY CUT SHORT TRIAL IN KURDS' DEATHS.
- News wire article from: Interpress Service November 11, 2006 700+ words
...case. Former dictator of Iraq Saddam Hussein was sentenced to...suppressed through 35 years of Saddam's rule until the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 surfaced after...the current problems in Iraq are concerned, Saddam is only part of them. The...
- General Who Defected Wants to Return to Iraq; Saddam's Son-in-Law Has Asked for...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post February 20, 1996 700+ words
...the personal offense to Saddam and the information Kamel carried out of Iraq, he was expected to remain...in Jerusalem, he said Iraq is moving toward "comfort and confidence" since Saddam won a referendum on his...fall and promised to hold Iraq's first parliamentary...
- France, Germany try to stop war on Iraq; Saddam defiant.(Main News)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin January 23, 2003 700+ words
...United States in any war against Iraq. Bush said Saddam was not interested in giving...States has threatened to attack Iraq and overthrow Saddam if it does not meet the disarmament...resolution passed in November. Iraq denies it has any such weapons...
- BATTLE FOR IRAQ: SADDAM'S 3 DECADES OF TERROR; Dictator's reign marked by...
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) March 20, 2003 700+ words
...Jews. By July 1979, Saddam had pushed al-Bakr aside to become Iraq's undisputed leader...to Saudi Arabia's, Saddam initiated ambitious social...year war impoverished Iraq and killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers despite Saddam's repeated attempts...
Source: HighBeam Research, 'A fragile state': impressions from Iraq.(AT WAR)