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Article: Saddam Hussein pushes political war
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 23, 1991
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By blowing up a Kuwaiti oil field yesterday, Saddam Hussein
delivered on yet another promise. Like Iraq's third missile attack
on
Israel yesterday, his promises have little military value. But they
carry heavy political and psychological weight, and Saddam Hussein
is waging a political as well as a military war. Taking stock after
the first week of battle, the Iraqi leader may feel that things are
not going too badly.
He has survived the first air onslaught and, despite all the
efforts of the allies, is still able to fire his missiles at Saudi
Arabia and Israel as promised. He has not managed to do any damage
to
Saudi Arabia yet, nor has he turned Tel Aviv into a "crematorium" --
a ...