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- <text id=93TT0901>
- <title>
- Jan. 11, 1993: Iraqi Miscalculation
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 11, 1993 Megacities
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 10
- Iraqi Miscalculation
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Saddam Hussein's planes lose a vain challenge to the no-fly
- zone
- </p>
- <p> The workings of his mind are a mystart to ordinary people and
- foreign policy analysts alike, but Saddam Hussein may have
- thought he could take advantage of the transition in Washington
- to violate the U.N. coalition's no-fly zone in southern Iraq.
- He miscalculated. On Dec. 27 a pair of Iraqi MiGs committed the
- double offense of entering the zone and then turning to confront
- U.S. F-16s. The American aircraft shot down one MiG; the other
- fled to Iran. Iraqi officials blasted the incident as "blatant
- aggression." President Bush said the shootdown was consistent
- with the need to enforce U.N. resolutions, and President-elect
- Bill Clinton gave him solid support. A day later, even as the
- U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk was diverted from Somalia to
- the Persian Gulf, Iraqi warplanes violated the zone again, but
- retreated when U.S. fighters approached.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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