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Whether that is true or not, the decision to hold on to Saddam's planes allows Tehran to play each side against the other in the gulf conflict, to its own advantage. By facilitating the removal of some 10% of Iraq's planes from combat, Iran earns the gratitude of the U.S. and its allies. "These aircraft are capable of reaching Israel, and their absconding from Iraq greatly reduces Iraq's war potential," said Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens last week...
...borders of India. Islamic scholars of the era emphasized militaristic verses of the Koran over those that counsel peacemaking. Muslims spoke of the earth as being divided between the dar ul- Islam (realm of Islam) and the dar ul-harb (realm of war), implying a need for ongoing combat to extend the faith's domain. In succeeding centuries, as Muslims consolidated a multinational empire, the language of militant jihad faded...
...addition to a theological framework for the use of force, Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, offers moral rules for the conduct of combat. Early Muslim authorities vigorously opposed the mistreatment of children, women, diplomats and hostages and inveighed against poisoned weapons or abuse of natural resources (in enemy territory "do not hew down a date palm nor burn it . . ."). On those matters, and many others, Saddam Hussein is not much of a Muslim, whatever his claims...
...remains of U.S. fightingmen who lost their lives there. Lobbyists go on pressing for the location of other MIAs (surprisingly, many Americans still believe there are U.S. soldiers being held captive somewhere in the jungles of Indochina). Much less attention has focused on another group of "lost" warriors: those combat veterans who, like Miller, disappeared into the jungle after they got home...
...spent four years in a mental hospital after being arrested for his role in a / shooting incident. In 1983 he hit the beach in Hawaii, a burned out case who washed windows for beers and scrounged in dumpsters for food. In 1985, 12 years after his last combat action, Cowan was given a medical explanation for his troubles: post-traumatic stress disorder...