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Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:25 PM
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Iraq Blasts U.S. Ahead of Gulf War
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Xinhuanet 2002-01-15
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BAGHDAD, January 15 (Xinhuanet) -- An
Iraqi official daily on
Tuesday blasted the United States ahead of the
11th anniversary
marking the beginning of the 1991 Gulf War and
stressed Iraq's
"ability to prevail over its enemies."
The Al-Iraq Daily said in an editorial that "the United States
and its
allies targeted Iraq in 1991 as it rejected hegemony and
foreign
subversion and the U.S. was worried about Iraq's growing
economy, a
matter which posed risk to the Zionism (Israel)," a
staunch ally of
the U.S. in the Mideast.
The editorial claimed the
U.S.-led onslaught on Iraq "was a
result of Iraq being the real strong
Arab state which matches the
aspirations of the Arab
nation."
However, "Iraqi people were able to sustain the
huge damage (of
the Gulf War) due to their steadfastness and adherence
to their
country," the editorial said.
The Gulf War,
triggered by Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait,
started on the night of
January 16-17, 1991 when the U.S.-led
multinational coalition army
embarked a bombing blitz on Iraq and
Iraqi occupation troops in
Kuwait.
After a six-week war, Kuwait was liberated and
Iraqi troops were
evicted out of the small emirate after a seven-month
occupation.
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