Word: bahrain
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...intimated that Arab leaders were more accommodating in private than in public. As soon as she landed in Washington, the support began slipping away. Egypt pronounced against military action. Turkey and Saudi Arabia told the U.S. it could not use air bases on their soil to attack Iraq. Then Bahrain's Information Minister announced that no strikes could be mounted from his country, a key land base for U.S. fighters and warships...
...many others, think the U.N.'s economic sanctions have gone too far and are hurting Iraqi civilians who have no say in who leads their country. Arab governments also worry about their own biggest internal threat: religious fundamentalists who despise the U.S. and the regimes, like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, that have military links with the Great Satan. The states of the gulf are not strong and brave nations with firm bases; they are traditional monarchies struggling to survive in changing, threatening times...
Albright will also try to persuade leaders in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to allow U.S. planes based there to take part in any anti-Saddam offensive. So far only Britain, which has sent an aircraft-carrier task force to the gulf, stands firmly with the U.S. on the use of force. Prime Minister Tony Blair, paying an official visit to Washington this week, will repeat that pledge...
...Bahrain - If Iraq can threaten Saudi oil fields, it can do the same to those in this tiny Persian Gulf sheikdom. It also serves as home to the U.S. 5th Fleet...
...diplomatic correspondent Douglas Waller, "but the U.S. will still go ahead with the military option anyway. Albright is laying the groundwork for an attack and, hopefully, reducing any adverse reaction for when an attack is actually launched." Coming soon: Madeleine plays the Persian Gulf, touring Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain...