Word: baghdad
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Both claims had a slightly empty ring. Baghdad almost certainly does not possess a satellite or the technology to build one. As for the missiles, Western analysts express some doubts about the accuracy of any longer-range missiles under development in Iraq...
Last week Baghdad claimed to have scored not one but two such gains: the successful firing of a three-stage rocket capable of lifting satellites into space, and the test firing of two surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 1,240 miles, more than twice that of the ones thought to be currently in the Iraqi arsenal...
Aoun gets help from Iraq, eager to exact revenge for Syria's support of Iran in the gulf war. Baghdad has been shipping weapons to the Christians mainly to gall Syria. Long rivals for hegemony in the region, the two Arab giants seem to be fighting a proxy war on Lebanese soil. The struggle for control of Lebanon is further confused by the power contest in Tehran and the fate of the 15 foreign hostages...
...tell the truth, the details of the story he relates may be subject to considerable refinement. He says he was born to a wealthy Iraqi family, studied architecture in Zurich and Vienna and received a doctorate in West Berlin (hence "Doctor"). He taught architecture at Baghdad University in Iraq, ran a private consulting business there, invested in banking, insurance and industry, and served as a sometime government adviser. In 1969, a year after the Baath Party came to power, Barbouti fled the country, fearing that he might be arrested as a spy because he had built a headquarters...
Iraq came under widespread criticism last year after it killed hundreds and perhaps thousands of Kurdish villagers with a chemical-weapons attack in the gulf war. Now U.S. officials confirm that Baghdad has been developing yet another form of warfare expressly banned by international law: biological weapons...