Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apartment buildings at the Khobar Towers near Dhahran and said hello to the two other members of the U.S. Air Force security police posted there. Then something caught his eye. Below he saw a white Chevrolet Caprice pulling into a public parking lot adjacent to the compound. Nothing odd about that, but the car was being followed closely by a large tanker truck, and the two vehicles were driving slowly along the edge of the lot. Directly opposite Building 131, where Guerrero stood watching, the Mercedes-Benz tanker backed up to the 10-ft.-high chain-link fence that separated...
...basically change its mission because of this," President Clinton said last week. The missions over Iraq are being flown without interruption. But if American forces are to stay in the gulf, the U.S. will have to defend them better. Fences and concrete barriers protect the Khobar compound, and after the attack in Riyadh, regular patrols were stepped up and lookouts were posted on rooftops. But no American official believed terrorists could strike with an explosion 10 times the size of the one in Riyadh. As General J.H. Binford Peay, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, implied, the terrorists...
...bodies like Hamas or Hizballah, but the Saudis and the United States are taking them seriously anyway." Even in tightly controlled Saudi Arabia, says MacLeod, these groups are dangerous. "Some members of these bands fought in Afghanistan, possibly gaining military experience there. If one of them did attack the compound in Dhahran, they showed considerable technical expertise." -->