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Ill Wind
This in-depth article traces the after effects of the 1991 Operation Desert Storm. The article takes a look at how the casualties from of biological warfare have been ignored. The story reveals that the effects on veterans who have been exposed to biological warfare can have effect even 20 years later.
Tags: FOI; Gulf war; Operation desert storm; Saddam Hussein; biological warfare
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Made in the USA
This article uncovers the various law suits that have been filed by some 3,500 sick vets from the first Gulf War against American companies that have supplied weapons to the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. The supply of weapons include nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. The article goes back in history when presidents Ronald Regan and George Bush were proponents of this aid to Iraq. The article looks at the fact that the initial aid given to Iraq was economically favorable for the U.S.
Tags: First Gulf War; war on terrorism; Saddam Hussein; George Bush; Ronald Regan; biological weapons; veteran soldiers
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Made in the USA
Crogan's series returns to the issue of American companies that supplied Saddam Hussein's regime with nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and missile technology. His stories look at both industrial and government bodies that had financial ties to Hussein, even going so far as to create an on-line searchable database for these companies and government entities.
Tags: Iraq; Hussein; Gulf War; weapons of mass destruction; WMD; business; international
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Borderline Logic: Immigration lessons from the first U.S war with Iraq
In the wake of large arrests of people from Muslim countries, LAWeekly talks about the immigration issues the U.S faced after 1991 Gulf War. The story revolves around war refugees temporarily housed in two camps at Rafha and Al Arwatiyah in Saudi Arabia. The Weekly details the experiences of Rob Frazier who was then posted as political official at the American embassy in Riyadh. After having finally made a repatriation agreement with the U.N, it was discovered that "sleeper agents" of Saddam Hussein could well have sneaked in. And some of them might well be in the U.S now after being allowed in through a rather humanitarian security system.
Tags: gulf war; repatriation; refugees; camps; immigration; immigrants; Iraq; Saudi Arabia
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Tales of the tyrant
In this long piece Bowden offers an in-depth profile of Saddam Hussein. He reveals the kind of books -Mario Puzo's 'The Godfather' series- and films -'The day of the Jackal'- he enjoys. The report is structured in four parts that analyze Hussein's personality -with particular attention to his ambition and cruelty- and goals. Interesting details about the now former leader of Iraq are revealed, some better known than others, such as the fact he never sleeps in the same place, or that he "has a particular passion for Arabic history and military history."
Tags: Saddam Hussein; Baghdad; al Jazeera; Persian Gulf War; Tikrit; Six-Day War; Revolutionary Command Council; Baath Party; Mesopotamia
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No One Left Behind
Tracking this story for nine years, Amy Waters Yarsinske reports the story of Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher, the first American pilot shot down during the Gulf War. Two years later, the discovery of the wreckage set off an investigation that, despite government insistence to the contrary, proved that Speicher survived the crash, was captured and might still be alive.
Tags: BOOK; military; Gulf War; Michael Scott Speicher; Iraq; Speicher; MIA; Sen. Pat Roberts; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Persian Gulf War; Navy; Department of Defense; Joint Recovery Command Center; SAR; FOIA; BOOK PAGES--292
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Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
The book takes a look at biological weapons programs around the world, including the United States. The book investigates many aspects of biological warfare including secret bioweapons testing by the CIA, the Pentagon's efforts to make a "superbug," and our efforts to combat biological weapons in the Persian Gulf War. The book attempts to shed some light on the changing global climate the lead to everyone at the Department of Defense being inoculated against Anthrax.
Tags: BOOK; bioterrorism; biological weapons; U.S. government; CIA
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The Secret Behind the Sanctions: How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply
Thomas Nagy and The Progressive discover that government documents from the Defense Intelligence Agency prove "beyond a doubt that, contrary to the Geneva convention, the U.S. government intentionally used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the country's water supply after the Gulf War."
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Shopping with Saddam Hussein
A Commentary investigation sheds light on how Iraq has been smuggling weapons in the 90s, using middlemen in Jordan, and violating the international restrictions imposed after the Gulf War. The reporters base their findings on confidential UN reports, which have never been published. The article details how Iraqi delegations have negotiated purchases of parts, weapons or technical assistance from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Romania. Firms from these countries participated in shady arms deals negotiations and were ready to sell weapons and missile parts in violation of the embargo. Reporters however have found no clear proof for the realization of the deals.
Tags: Saddam Hussein; United Nations; Military Industrial Commission; embargo; missiles; nuclear weapons; intelligence; Syria; irewar03
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The betrayal of Basra
This Mother Jones' investigative report exposes the desperation of Iraqi people "after ten years of American-sponsored sanctions." The story describes the suffocating air in Basra's pediatric hospitals where thousands of children die because of malnutrition and lack of medicines. The article follows the history of Iraq in recent decades from the standpoint of ordinary people, who have survived in a struggle with poverty and Saddam Hussein's regime. The reporter points to examples of how Iraq cannot use its oil money to pay wages, to finance public-works contracts, to run hospitals or to revitalize the welfare state. A major finding is that this lack of cash flow makes it easier for the regime to monopolize access to all essential goods and services. "And, as the United States learned on September 11, that sense of injustice can fuel a desperate desire for revenge," the author concludes.
Tags: poverty; terrorism; United Nations; Children's Fund; Saddam Hussein; weapons; Gulf War; Bush; Dick Cheney; restrictions; sanctions; oil; energy; Baghdad; Iran; Kuwait