Example sentences of "that iraq had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told them that Iraq had 60 divisions ready for war , compared with his enemies ' 18 , and would therefore win any battle for Kuwait , which was part of Iraq 's ‘ body and soul ’ . |
| 2 | Jordanians were dejected by the beating Iraq was getting , elated by the news that Iraq had made good its threat to strike Israel with missiles , worried lest Israeli retaliation drag Jordan into the war . |
| 3 | In an explicit warning to Israel , Saddam Hussein said in a radio broadcast on April 2 that Iraq had no need of nuclear weapons , since it had binary chemical weapons capable of destroying " half of Israel " in the event of an Israeli attack . |
| 4 | A report in the New York Times in late March 1990 quoted US intelligence sources as saying that Iraq had recently completed the construction of six launchers for its al-Husayen missiles at the H-2 air base in western Iraq near the Jordanian border . |
| 5 | Hussein denied that Iraq had attempted to import nuclear triggers , and claimed that the capacitors seized in London were cheap , standard devices with a multitude of uses . |
| 6 | He said that Iraq had achieved " a complicated scientific leap " when it successfully tested the launching . |
| 7 | He also announced that Iraq had successfully completed " the most complicated and important stages in the development and production of two different surface-to-surface missile systems , each of which has a range of 2,000 km " . |
| 8 | The International Herald Tribune of May 29 , 1989 , quoted US officials as saying that Iraq had agreed to pay $27,300,000 in compensation to the families of the 37 US crew members who had been killed in May 1987 during Iraq 's missile attack on the USS Stark in the Gulf [ see p. 35597 ] . |
| 9 | It was thought that Iraq had chosen to respond to the appeal from a friendly leader of the Non-aligned Movement , rather than be seen as giving in to Western pressure . |
| 10 | Based on prices between 1980 and 1990 , Aziz estimated that Kuwait had stolen oil worth US$2,400 million and he claimed that Iraq had every right to " retrieve " these funds . |
| 11 | Mubarak also announced that Saddam had assured him that Iraq had no intention of attacking Kuwait or of moving forces towards the Kuwaiti border . |
| 12 | This assurance had been given in the light of US reports on July 24 claiming that Iraq had advanced two armoured divisions totalling about 30,000 soldiers towards the Kuwaiti border . |
| 13 | Gen. Kassem asserted that Kuwait had been an integral component of the southern Iraqi province of Basra under Ottoman rule and that Iraq had succeeded to Turkish territorial sovereignty over Basra with the dissolution of the Ottoman empire after the First World War . |
| 14 | The New York Times of Aug. 14 reported that Iraq had transferred between US$3,000 million and $5,000 million in gold , foreign currency and goods from Kuwait and that this had significantly increased Iraq 's financial reserves which had stood at an estimated US$6,500 million before the invasion . |
| 15 | Although there was no reliable estimate of the numbers detained , it became apparent that Iraq had moved some foreign nationals to potential military targets such as air fields and oil facilities , to deter any US air attacks . |
| 16 | The Iranian news agency IRNA announced on Aug. 15 that Iraq had accepted Iran 's terms for a comprehensive peace plan based on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 598 of July 1987 [ see p. 35600 ] and on the recognition of the 1975 Algiers accord [ see pp. 27053-54 ] which Iraq had rejected before invading Iran in September 1980 . |
| 17 | In a letter dated Aug. 14 , the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein informed the Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani that Iraq had agreed ( i ) " to adopt the 1975 agreement " ( i.e. the Algiers accord , which divided the Shatt al-Arab waterway between Iran and Iraq ] ; ( ii ) to withdraw as of Aug. 17 an estimated 100,000-250,000 Iraqi troops from Iranian territory officially totalling 2,600 sq km ; and ( iii ) to begin the immediate repatriation of an estimated 30,000 Iranian prisoners of war . |
| 18 | It was reported on Aug. 21 that Iraq had completed the withdrawal of its troops , which had begun on Aug. 17 and that almost all of the estimated 70,000 to 100,000 prisoners of war ( POWs ) held by Iran and Iraq had been exchanged , with the last due to be released in September . |
| 19 | The Washington Post of Sept. 28 reported that Iraq had given all citizens of Kuwait until Oct. 1 to apply for Iraqi citizenship . |
| 20 | Shaikh Jabir called for a united front , adding that Iraq had sought wrongfully to exploit the differences arising from " the endeavours and efforts of some Kuwaiti activists to organise the Kuwaiti state " . |
| 21 | It was reported on Oct. 22 that Iraq had expelled members of the Mujaheddin e-Khalq , based in Baghdad and the largest and most important dissident group opposed to the Iranian regime . |
| 22 | ( Hurd said afterwards that the Jan. 15 deadline would not automatically trigger an immediate offensive , but also that Iraq had no immunity against military action before that date if , for example , foreign nationals held hostage there were mistreated . ) |
| 23 | Shortly before the vote Saddam Hussein had made a speech broadcast by Baghdad radio , asserting that if war came Iraq would fight with a heroism which would fill every Arab and Moslem with pride , and , more specifically , that Iraq had the means to detect US stealth bombers and shoot them down like any other enemy aircraft . |
| 24 | However , on Dec. 17 a spokesman at the Soviet embassy in Baghdad said that Iraq had refused exit visas to Soviet workers whose contracts had not yet expired . |
| 25 | On Dec. 15 the Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) announced that Iraq had called off the Bush-Aziz talks . |
| 26 | There were also reports that Iraq had sought sanctuary for many of its most modern aircraft in Iran . |
| 27 | He confirmed that Iraq had been effectively disarmed as a military power , and was left with an army largely composed of infantry which could not constitute a threat to neighbouring states in the immediate future . |
| 28 | On July 8 the IAEA confirmed that Iraq had acknowledged work on three parallel programmes " for uranium enrichment " although the Foreign Affairs Minister , Ahmad Husayn Kudayyir , claimed on July 9 that the government had destroyed all its nuclear weapons capability . |
| 29 | The IAEA , holding an emergency meeting in Vienna , passed on July 18 a motion censuring Iraq for failing to allow inspection of its nuclear programme ( the UN 's Special Commission on Iraq having reportedly described as " premature " a claim by Perricos that Iraq had " come clean " on its nuclear programme ) . |
| 30 | UN officials said on July 30 that Iraq had admitted to holding four times as many chemical weapons as those disclosed in April [ see p. 38164 ] . |