NewsTracker Answers for week of Mar. 20, 2003

Q: The U.S. launched an attack against Iraq after giving leader Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave the country. Find Iraq in this map of the Mideast.

Circle the area on this map

Q: A key country to the north of Iraq agreed to allow U.S. planes to use their airspace to attack from that direction. Which country is due north of Iraq?

A. Kuwait

B. Turkey

C. Qatar

D. Saudi Arabia

B. Turkey in the north agreed to limited cooperation with the forces allied against Iraq.

Q: A dusty, largely barren thumb of land that protrudes from the Arabian Peninsula into the Persian Gulf is serving as the regional U.S. military headquarters during the war with Iraq. What's the name of this tiny Persian Gulf emirate

A. Saudi Arabia

B. Kuwait

C. Qatar

D. Iran

C. Qatar is half the size of New Jersey.

Q: The Persian Gulf is an arm of what body of water?

A. Black Sea

B. Mediterranean Sea

C. Arabian Sea

D. Red Sea

C. Arabian Sea

Q: The current Iraqi regime has failed in various attempts to topple the governments of its Arab neighbors. Besides the invasion of Kuwait which resulted in the Persian Gulf War in 1990, which other country has Iraq attacked since the 1980s?

A. Saudi Arabia

B. Iran

C. Yemen

D. All of the above

B. Iraq invaded Iran in September 1980. By the time the conflict ended in August 1988 with a cease-fire, it was considered one of the longest and most destructive of the 20th century.