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re about the Kingdom's alleged funding of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program in the 1980s. In Khilew

uced the faulty WMD assessment. Less attention has been paid to the more puzzling question of why so many people readily accepted the argument that Saddam would arm Al Qaeda with nuclear weapons, despite the obvious absurdity of the claim. It is this latter question that also seems most relevant amid

fically, although Khilewi mentioned the Pakistani program, the overwhelming majority of his allegations were about the Kingdom's alleged funding of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program in the 1980s. In Khilewi's telling, Saudi Arabia gave Saddam at least $5 billion from 1985 through the Gulf War, in return

nd we are soon confronted with a nuclear-armed Iran. Kennedy faced an unpredictable, risk-taking and at times aggressive opponent in Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Yet he frustrated Khrushchev's ambitions and helped the U.S. avoid war through a combination of American nuclear superiority, firmness in defendin

They recognized that no one would believe that United Nations forces in Korea would be so barbaric as to resort to such weapons. In 1987 and 1988, Saddam Hussein launched attacks on no fewer than 40 Kurdish villages in northern Iraq, using new mixtures of mustard gas and various nerve agents such as Sarin,

as to resort to such weapons. In 1987 and 1988, Saddam Hussein launched attacks on no fewer than 40 Kur

resort to such weapons. In 1987 and 1988, Saddam Hussein launched attacks on no fewer than 40 Kurdish vil

what the Russians and Iranians fear would have been an easy win in Syria cannot be explained by them in any other way. This is dangerous. Just as Nikita Khrushchev concluded that President Kennedy was weak and incompetent after the Bay of Pigs failure and the botched Vienna summit, and then proceeded to test t

nisters in seven months, who are Ibrahim Amoush, Hussein Majali, Salim Al Zoubi, Ibrahim al-Jazi, and Khal

ng to stop the Soviets from operationalizing the missiles already there. A tense second week followed during which Kennedy and the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, stood "eyeball to eyeball," neither side backing down. Saturday, Oct. 27, was the day of decision. At the last minute, the crisis was resolved wit