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...clear explanation came from Tehran. Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani did assure the U.S.-led coalition, however, that the decision to provide sanctuary to some of Saddam's most sophisticated French and Soviet fighters and most of his SU-24 Fencer bombers would not affect Iran's neutral status. The planes, Iranian officials said, will be impounded and held until hostilities end. They also insisted that no deal had been cut with Baghdad in advance...
...Many Arabs admire Saddam for his hazem, a sort of relentless strictness, although the image is at odds with a more secular impression that Iraq made until Saddam began shading his nation and himself toward fundamentalism. Last week, in a gesture of piety and defiance, Saddam ordained that Allahu akbar (God Is Great) should be sewed into the Iraqi tricolor flag...
...government has lost all control in Mogadishu, and chaos has taken over. Armed mobs, some of them renegade soldiers from President Mohammed Siad Barre's army, roam the city shooting and looting. Troops shouting "Allah Akbar!" (God is great!) invaded the Roman Catholic cathedral, drove the congregation out with tear gas and truncheons, then set fire to the building. An Italian priest who witnessed the attack said many worshipers were killed...
...yesterday's talks, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati reiterated his country's condemnation of the invasion of Kuwait. But he also criticized the presence of U.S. and other foreign forces building up in the Persian Gulf, according to Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency...
...banners in Arabic and English -- the letters three feet high -- reading KUWAIT FOR US, NOT FOR THE IRAQIS! and WE DIE AND KUWAIT LIVES! Despite the bursts from automatic weapons fired into the air by nervous Iraqi soldiers, Kuwaitis stayed for an hour, waving their banners and shouting, "Allah akbar!" (God is great...