Example sentences of "[noun pl] that iraq had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jordanian and Iraqi embassy officials told Customs investigators that Iraq had paid for the guns as a ‘ gift for Jordan ’ . |
| 2 | The Iraqi commander , Lieutenant-General Maher Abd al-Rashid , afterwards denied charges that Iraq had used mustard gas in this engagement . |
| 3 | There were also reports that Iraq had sought sanctuary for many of its most modern aircraft in Iran . |
| 4 | It is not yet clear whether this feat was accomplished through inflight refuelling — there were reports that Iraq had received the Antonev fuel-carrier from the USSR — or through refuelling halfway down the Gulf , as the victims appeared to suspect . |
| 5 | There were reports that Iraq had received another Russian system , the SS-21 , though specialist circles are uncertain about this and arrival was not independently confirmed — perhaps the confusion arose from the last digits of the SS-12 having been inverted . |
| 6 | Aug. 2 , the anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , was marked by a broadcast by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in which he described the Iraqis as the true victors in the subsequent war , on the grounds that Iraq had not backed down in the face of the enormous odds against it . |