Word: commandeering
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...Moscow to continue the contacts. At 2 a.m. on Feb. 13, Aziz brought a written statement declaring that "the Iraqi leadership is seriously studying the ideas outlined by the representative of the Soviet President and will give its reply in the immediate future." Two days later, the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council announced that it was willing to comply with U.N. Security Council Resolution 660. But it also included a whole series of conditions...
...sight of the French tricolor flying above advancing armor greeted with more relief than at allied headquarters in the gulf. When Desert Storm began, there had been fears that the 12,600-strong French contingent, reluctant to accept U.S. leadership, might stand aloof from the coalition's integrated command structure, much as France does in NATO, perhaps even disdaining to fight. During the countdown to hostilities, President Francois Mitterrand had courted British and American anger by launching an eleventh- hour peace proposal that would have handed Saddam Hussein a diplomatic victory by rewarding an Iraqi withdrawal with the convening...
...first air strikes were launched against Iraqi targets, the French, under General Michel Roquejoffre, closed ranks with the other allies, putting themselves under U.S. operational command. Guided by U.S. AWACS aircraft, French pilots flew their Jaguar fighter-bombers on combat missions deep into Iraqi territory, while French ground forces, including Foreign Legion units, committed themselves wholeheartedly to the battle...
...resignation of his anti-American Defense Minister, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, a co-founder of the Franco-Iraqi Friendship Association who had tried to limit any military action by France strictly to Kuwaiti territory. French forces in the gulf were not only placed under General Norman Schwarzkopf's overall command but were also integrated with other allied contingents. Overflights of France by U.S. B-52 bombers on their way to Iraq were promptly permitted, as was the big planes' refueling at a French air base. Braving critics who accused him of becoming "a vassal" of the Americans, Mitterrand endorsed the need...
...authority, and it might even be one of them who decides that the clan's survival is more important than Saddam's. In addition, two of his longtime associates appear to have more power than other members of the ruling circle: Deputy Prime Minister Taha Yassin Ramadan and Revolutionary Command Council Deputy Chairman Izzat Ibrahim. So far, neither has seemed ambitious enough to seize power for its own sake...