Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JORDAN, with the presumed consent of its ally Saudi Arabia, openly endorsed the Iraqi cause with offers of military aid, including some forces from its well-trained, U.S.-equipped 60,000-man army. King Hussein, who met in Baghdad last week with Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein, also organized truck convoys to carry Soviet and East bloc military supplies from the Jordanian port of Aqaba; its harbor was crowded with freighters waiting to unload. Western diplomats speculated that the Saudis, Jordanians and Iraqis had formed a new conservative Arab alliance that was aimed at checking the Iranian brand of revolutionary Islam...
...Iraq and prayed to "God Almighty to grant what is best for our Arab and Muslim world." Kuwait's ruling Emir, Sheik Jaber al Ahmed al Sabah, implored both combatants to pursue peacemaking channels. Like Kuwait, both Bahrain and the U.A.E. denied reports that they had allowed the Iraqi air force to use their bases and adamantly insisted that they too were strictly neutral...
Western intelligence officers believe that the Saudis, at least in the early days of the war, covertly cooperated with Iraqi forces to the extent of giving them the use of base facilities and transit rights for warplanes. That aid and comfort is thought to have dried up as the safety of the oil was placed above the desire to punish Iranian mullahs...
Kuwait's leaders, if they choose to visit their northern border, can see the flames of burning Iranian and Iraqi oil installations; their nation borders on the war zone. Kuwait shares Saudi concerns over its own potentially troublesome Shi'ite minorities. Its protestations of strict neutrality were not very persuasive; reporters crossing the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border last week counted over 100 gleaming new Toyota Landcruisers waiting to roll into Iraq. Nevertheless, Kuwait is also understandably schizophrenic about supporting Iraq because of a special problem: Iraq has longstanding territorial claims on Kuwait. If Iraq were...
Like some hibernating monster that has roused itself to feed, the Western world's oil-fed inflation once again has national economies in a bear hug. Last week the squeeze grew tighter. There were reports from the Persian Gulf that the damage inflicted on Iraqi and Iranian oilfields during the current fighting would take months, and perhaps years, to repair. As a result, oil-importing countries are soon likely to see tightening oil markets and then higher crude prices...