War in Iraq and New World Order

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The U.S. launched a missile attack aimed at Iraq’s intelligence headquarters in Baghdad June 26, 1993. The U.S. justified the attack by citing evidence that Iraq had sponsored a plot to kill former President George Bush during his visit to Kuwait in April 1993. In August 1995, two of Saddam Hussein’s sons-in-law, who held high positions in the Iraq military, defected to Jordan, both were killed after returning to Iraq in Feb. 1996. After fighting between two Kurdish factions (one allied with Iraq, the other with Iran) erupted in the protected zone of northern Iraq, the Baghdad government intervened in the conflict by sending troops into Arbii, August 31, 1996. The U.S. retaliated with missile strikes against air defense sites in the south. On December 9 the UN allowed Baghdad to begin selling limited amounts of oil for food and medicine. Saddam Hussein’s son Odal was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in Baghdad December 12. Tensions were heightened in November 1997 as Iraq refused to allow inspections of possible weapons sites by a UN team containing U.S. members. The recent war in Iraq started by America in collaboration with U.K. was expected to be a third world war. Because it started in third week of third month of 2003. But after 4th week it ended with the end of Saddam regime. However, some new world order formed with this war has been explained in this book in detail.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ashok Kumar Jha

Ashiok Kumar Jha (b. 1953) has been educated from Patna University and JNU, New Delhi. He has completed his M.Phil degree in Population Studies from the Center for the Study of Regional Director in 1981 and at present he is teaching in Department of Geography, SNSRKS college Saharsa, a constituent unit of B.N. Mandal University, Laloo Nagar, Madhepura (Bihar). His academic background marked with excellence and has completed a number of national and international research projects. He has to his credit more than one dozen papers.

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Title
War in Iraq and New World Order
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8126117966
Length
viii+229p., 25cm.
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