Word: bahrain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imports, 56% of Western Europe's and 68% of Japan's come from the gulf. That lifeline is acutely vulnerable to the disruptions of war, revolution and political turmoil. The region has been beset by all three. The conservative Arab states-Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman-face threats to their security at every point of the compass: a simmering, potentially explosive war between Iran and Iraq, armored Soviet divisions in Afghanistan, Soviet proxy forces in South Yemen, and the growing militancy of Islamic fundamentalists everywhere...
...interview with TIME, the Prime Minister of Bahrain, Sheik Khalifa bin Sulman al Khalifa, said: "I'm all for maneuvers [such as those scheduled for Oman later this year], and I welcome full cooperation with the U.S. in the security of our area, but only on the condition that it is handled and presented properly." Translated, that means "Stay out of sight...
...Bahrain's rulers are readier today to take the political risks of opening their country to a more substantial American military presence, because they are more worried than they were a year ago about their security. They are still recovering from the shock of an abortive coup d'état last December. It was staged by dissident Shi'ites, members of a Muslim sect that dominates Iran and constitutes a majority in Bahrain. The nation is an obvious target for Iranian attempts to export the Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic revolution. One of the masterminds...
...Prophet Muhammad in A.D. 632, the conflicts that led to the great division of Islam between Sunnis and Shi'ites began. Today the Sunnis account for more than 80% of the world's 750 million Muslims, but the Shi'ites who predominate in Iran, Iraq and Bahrain and who have unstable minorities in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Kuwait, generate fears far out of proportion to their numbers. . . . The Shi'ites believe that the leadership of Islam should have remained in the Prophet's family. The Sunnis prefer to make such decisions by consensus...
...Shatt al Arab waterway and Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. Yet most Iraqis despise Khomeini's brand of Islamic fanaticism and prefer the secular nature of Saddam Hussein's government. Saddam Hussein's downfall would also provoke grave apprehensions in the gulf sheikdoms (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates). Those states and Saudi Arabia have poured at least $20 billion into Iraqi coffers to help keep the advancing Iranian forces at bay. If Iraq succumbs to Khomeini's aggression, it would probably become a Shi'ite-ruled Arab nation inclined...