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Early in the afternoon of Feb. 25, when allied troops were less than two days from liberating Kuwait City, three Iraqi officers led by Lieut. Colonel Mohammed Rida burst into the capital's Plaza Hotel. Confronting Khalid and Ali, the Palestinians who had kept the place running during the seven-month occupation, Rida calmly issued a terrifying order. "We will be back tomorrow," he said. "You will produce the women you have hidden. We will have a last party. if you do not provide, you will...
...Arabia tried to assure the refugees that their worst dreams were not coming to pass. Colonel William Nash, commanding officer of U.S. forces in Safwan, told General Gunther Greindl, head of the U.N. observer force, "We will continue to protect the refugees in this area." In Saudi Arabia, General Khalid bin Sultan al-Saud, head of the Saudi forces during the war, announced that his government would accept and shelter the stranded Iraqis by building a $30 million camp near the Saudi border town of Rafha...
...Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, said that "morale is the greatest single factor in successful war." In the course of unrelenting bombing, weeks of hunger and Baghdad's dickering with Moscow about a withdrawal, Iraqi morale evaporated. The Saudi commander, Lieut. General Khalid bin Sultan, said Iraq's soldiers were competent enough, but "they don't believe in what they are fighting...
...leave New Kuwait, and who could stay or come? If foreign professionals are still needed, the preferred will be nationals of the countries that supported Kuwait against Iraq. Which means that the Palestinians once more in their history will lose out. "We were welcome at the beginning," says Khalid, a Palestinian who worked for the Kuwait municipality until 1988. "We worked hard to build their country" -- as Kuwait worked hard to support the Palestinian cause abroad...
...fighting starts, the biggest problem of all will be command and control, forging the various forces into a cohesive military whole. The Islamic troops are officially under the command of the Saudi chief of staff, General Khalid bin Sultan. But the Saudis use American weapons and tactics, while the Syrians operate like the Soviet army. Even talking to one another is difficult. The Saudis and Moroccans speak different Arabic dialects, while the Arabs have to use English to communicate with the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis...