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| Iraq's Quest
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| By Jim Garamone / American Forces
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WASHINGTON,
Feb. 5, 2003 — Following the 1991 Persian
Gulf War, the U.S. military gathered huge piles
of information and came up with a long list of "lessons
learned."
The United States wasn't the only place with experts
mulling over the war. One Indian general came up with his succinct own lessons
learned from the conflict: "Never fight the Americans without nuclear weapons."
A huge post-war surprise for the victorious Gulf
War coalition was how close Iraq had been to having nuclear warheads.
Iraq was within months of producing an enriched-uranium
nuclear weapon when the Persian Gulf War started in January 1991. Had Iraq waited
until it had a nuke and had mounted it on a Scud missile begs the question of
what the worldwide response would have been to its invasion of Kuwait in August
1990. More
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| Iraq's Biological Warfare
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| By Jim Garamone / American Forces
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WASHINGTON,
Jan. 27, 2003 — With weapons of mass destruction,
what you don't know can kill you.
Iraq has persistently lied, delayed and deceived
U.N. inspectors who are in the country to ensure it is ridding itself of chemical,
biological and nuclear capabilities. One of the biggest problems is just what
is the size and scope of the Iraqi biological weapons program?
When the first inspectors were in Iraq from 1992
to 1998, it took until 1995 to learn Iraq had an offensive biological weapons
program. That only came to light because Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's son-in-law
defected. Hussein Kamal had been in charge of the Iraqi biological warfare program
since 1988. He told inspectors about the program and where to look. More |
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| Iraq's Use of Chemical
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WASHINGTON,
Jan. 23, 2003 — Iraq's chemical weapons arsenal
is not some hypothetical problem, but a danger
and a weapon Saddam Hussein has used in the past.
Hussein had been in power only a year when he declared
war on neighboring Iran in 1980. He flexed his muscles against the Persian Gulf
region's largest military power, but one weakened by post-shah disarray. Iraq
had a more modern military and banked on a fast, easy victory.
Iranian leaders, with a population of 55 million
at their disposal, had no compunctions about launching low-tech "human wave" attacks
against the Iraqis. Hussein's blitzkrieg devolved into a trench war of attrition,
but one he couldn't afford with a population of only about 20 million. More |
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