[aristeides]

My recollection is that the Clinton administration used the impending start of Ramadan as its excuse for starting Operation Desert Fox (Rommelian name for bombing of Iraq in Dec. '98) during the House debate on impeachment, and then proceeded to continue the bombing one day into Ramadan. The bombing stopped almost immediately after the House had voted on impeachment (some British bombers were on the way to another bombing run, and were called back to base.)

[MattinNJ]

Bingo-thanks. I hate it when my memory goes like that. It must be from banging my head off the coffee table during the Giants 49ers game.