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...been working on this [project] since March," Miller said. "I was traveling in the Middle East. In Bahrain, I read a newspaper article about IGPC. There were pictures of stamps of Sylvester Stallone, President Reagan, and I thought, 'why not African-American writers...
...back in your face. This time the Iraqi dictator decreed that Americans would no longer be allowed on the 40-member U.N. inspection team that is hunting for remnants of his weapons programs. He stopped three U.S. inspectors from disembarking in Baghdad last Thursday, sending their plane back to Bahrain, and threatened to kick the other 10 Americans on the team out of his country this week. On Saturday, Saddam produced a mob of angry demonstrators who burned American flags in front of the U.N. offices in Baghdad...
HIFIP Executive Director Thomas D. Mullins said the database project was born soon after he met information technology expert S. Nazim Ali in Bahrain in 1994. Ali is now director of operations for HIFIP...
Despite the nighttime drama at Doha--part of the U.S. force additions that include 4,700 ground troops, eight Stealth bombers, 23 F-16 fighters in Bahrain, a Patriot antimissile battery and 23 combat ships--military tensions seemed to diminish by day. The troops are officially embarked on a training mission dubbed "Intrinsic Action 96-3," hardly the ringing title of a real assault. Saddam stuck to his word, temporarily, by not firing at planes patrolling the no-fly zones. He appeared to be removing his antiaircraft missiles and mobile launchers. The U.S. stepped back from its threat of "disproportionate...
Farther afield and five years after the war, other coalition members watch Iraq through a more complex lens. Gratitude for defeating Saddam back then is tempered today by new interests and demands. Turkey's Islamist government is keen to revive relations with its old trading partner. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are mindful of growing fundamentalist and dissident oppositions that demand Muslim solidarity above all. Frustration over the lack of peace progress colors the reaction elsewhere in the Arab world. Fearing the impact of a real rift, Kuwaiti officials fanned out to make sure the rest of the gulf understood their...