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- <text id=89TT3306>
- <title>
- Dec. 18, 1989: World Notes:Iraq
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 18, 1989 Money Laundering
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 35
- World Notes
- IRAQ
- Some Deadly New Toys
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Ever since Iraq credited its use of medium-range missiles
- against Iran with bringing a halt to the gulf war in 1988, the
- regime of President Saddam Hussein has relentlessly pursued
- high-tech advances in its military hardware.
- </p>
- <p> Last week Baghdad claimed to have scored not one but two
- such gains: the successful firing of a three-stage rocket
- capable of lifting satellites into space, and the test firing
- of two surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 1,240 miles,
- more than twice that of the ones thought to be currently in the
- Iraqi arsenal.
- </p>
- <p> Both claims had a slightly empty ring. Baghdad almost
- certainly does not possess a satellite or the technology to
- build one. As for the missiles, Western analysts express some
- doubts about the accuracy of any longer-range missiles under
- development in Iraq.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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