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Article: Saddam's dark threat.(Iraq's growing chemical/biological weapons stockpile)(includes related articles)(Cover Story)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- November 24, 1997
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Ever since Operation Desert Storm, standoffs with Saddam Hussein have played out with a kind of unthreatening predictability. He huffs and puffs; the United States lobs a few cruise missiles into Iraq, or threatens to; the crisis flares-and passes. Americans return to their regularly scheduled programs.
But consider a more frightening scenario: determined to avenge his humiliation in the gulf war, enraged by the crushing economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies, Saddam decides to make Americans share the suffering of his people. He hires a terrorist cell to launch a biological- or chemical-weapon attack against an American target. In an age ...