Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...naval power off Lebanon was the unpredictable course of the Iran-Iraq war, some 700 miles to the east. In that war, Iran is waging a continuing campaign against the southern Iraqi city of Basra and thereby posing an implicit threat to Iraq's gulf allies, most notably Kuwait. "We talk about our strategic interests in the context of the Iran-Iraq war," a senior Administration official insisted...
...that he had allegedly made last November in connection with the freeing of Hostage David Jacobsen, a former hospital administrator at the American University of Beirut. They claimed that he had pledged to arrange the release of 17 members of a largely Shi'ite movement who are imprisoned in Kuwait but failed...
...Geneva. The Iranians presented the Americans with a nine-point agenda that they claimed had already been approved by the National Security Council. The plan called for the sale of more TOW antitank weapons and Hawk missile parts to Iran and the release of 17 Muslim terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait in exchange for freedom for the American hostages in Lebanon...
Shultz testified that he was outraged to discover that former NSC Adviser John Poindexter had pressured Kuwait to free the convicted Muslims. Shortly after learning of Poindexter's move, Shultz cabled Kuwait's Foreign Minister and reiterated U.S. policy against negotiating with terrorists. The Secretary had more difficulty communicating with the President on the matter: White House aides would not grant him an Oval Office appointment and demanded to know what he wanted to discuss with Reagan. Shultz reached Reagan only by telephoning the President's private quarters over the weekend...
...killed last year by his captors. Anderson and Sutherland were abducted in the spring of 1985 by Shi'ite radicals. Their captors' principal demand: the release of 17 presumed Shi'ites who are serving prison sentences for, among other things, terrorist attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. Three other Americans, Joseph Cicippio, Frank Reed and Edward Tracy, are said to be held by groups called the Revolutionary Justice Organization and Arab Revolutionary Cells-Omar Moukhtar Forces...