NPR's Mike Shuster reports from Baghdad that after Saddam Hussein sent his tanks into northern Iraq to reassert his sovereignty there through a Kurdish group, the US not only retaliated by firing two rounds of cruise missiles at Iraqi air defense systems, it also froze a UN plan to allow Iraq to sell oil to use the proceeds to buy much-needed food and medicine. That plan would have helped alleviate some of the economic effects of six years of economic sanctions. But not everyone is displeased, for many are making millions from the sanctions.
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