... endorsed and enforced by the United States against the will of the majority of the world. The sanctions restrict food and medicine imports to Iraq in order to bring down Saddam Hussein. The result is more than 1.2 million deaths, according to the very organization that began the sanctions, of which the majority were children under the age of five. According to Bruce ... or conspiratorial cell structure (whose members wear no uniform or identifying insignia); and perpetrated by a sub-national group or non-state entity". America's motive in the sanctions become diminished when Saddam Huss...

• Word Count: 1505
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... endorsed and enforced by the United States against the will of the majority of the world. The sanctions restrict food and medicine imports to Iraq in order to bring down Saddam Hussein. The result is more than 1.2 million deaths, according to the very organization that began the sanctions, of which the majority were children under the age of five. According to Bruce ... or conspiratorial cell structure (whose members wear no uniform or identifying insignia); and perpetrated by a sub-national group or non-state entity". America's motive in the sanctions become diminished when Saddam Huss...

• Word Count: 1506
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... initially as a form of resistance to the Israeli presence in Southern Lebanon. Hizballah was established as an organizational body for Shi'ite fundamentalists, under the spiritual leadership of Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah. Near the end of 1982 Iran sent 1,200 fighters from its 'Iranian Revolutionary Guards' in order to assist in the establishment of a revolutionary Islamic movement in Lebanon whose ... mysteriously disappearing in 1978 in Libya. Amal then split into a secular faction, headed by Nabih Beri (now speaker of Lebanon's parliament), and an increasingly radical religious b...

• Word Count: 2384
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , speaks out frequently against Israel, but for him the real problem is the U.S. troop presence in his country dating to the military buildup before the 1991 Gulf War precipitated by Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait (Time magazine, October 2001 Beyer, Lisa pg 45). How likely is another attack? Federal agents have already turned up some worrisome evidence. Still no one is breathing ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School