Fāw, Battle of, Fāw, Iraq, 1988
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Fao, Battle of, Fāw, Iraq, 1988
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found: Work cat.: 2006376700: Naddāf, M. Nabard-i Fāv, 2000:p. 4 of cover (Battle of Faw)
found: The Middle East and North Africa, 2005:p. 470 (In mid-April [1988] Iraqi forces regained control of the Faw peninsula, where the Iranians, who had been unable to strike out to make further territorial gains since capturing the area in 1986, had scaled down their presence)
found: Nerve Agent, VX, via WWW, 4 May, 2006www.cbwinfo.com/Chemical/Nerve/VX.shtml (Iraq may have used VX in the battle of Fao on April 17 and 18, 1988)
found: ProQuest, via WWW, 5 May 2006:New York TImes, 18 Aug 2005, p. 3A (art: Officers say US aided Iraq knowing poison gas was used: "In early 1988 ... the Iraqi Army, with American planning assitance, retook the Fao Peninsula in an attack that reopened Iraq's access to the Persian Gulf")
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2006-05-05: new
2006-06-08: revised
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