Word: kuwait
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Next came a strike on a Saudi supertanker, the Yenbu Pride, which was heading south from Kuwait toward the Saudi port of Ras Tanura and was within Saudi coastal waters when it was hit by rockets. Again the Iranians were blamed. After a day's respite, two more ships were reported hit on Friday, this time by Iraq, and on Saturday came the sinking of the Greek-owned cargo vessel by an Iraqi missile...
...gulf states were slow to react to the tanker attacks. The foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates) met in Riyadh. But after almost five hours of talks, the ministers merely condemned the Iranian attacks and said they would appeal to the United Nations Security Council and the Arab League. Extreme caution dominates the thinking of even the most powerful of the gulf nations, Saudi Arabia. Before the Iranian attackers hit the Saudi tanker off Ras Tanura last week, a U.S.-operated AWACS radar plane detected...
...Iran from exporting oil from its Kharg Island terminal. That threat roused international concern. If Saddam Hussein proved as bad as his word, the war between Iraq and Iran might extend to other parts of the Persian Gulf and affect oil shipments of such Iraqi neighbors and benefactors as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Last week those fears came closer to facts. Baghdad sent the French planes into action, striking two ships. As it happened, neither was carrying Iranian oil, and both were under contract to Kuwaiti and Saudi oil companies...
...planes had attacked "two naval targets" near Kharg Island. In fact, a low-flying missile fitting the description of a radar-controlled Exocet reportedly hit a 41,000-ton Greek tanker, Filikon L., that was more than 70 miles away from Kharg Island. The ship, under contract to the Kuwait Petroleum Corp., had just loaded up with fuel at the Kuwaiti port of Mina al Ahmadi. Damage proved relatively minor, but a second ship hit in the same attack was not so lucky. A South Korean supply vessel under contract to Aramco, the Saudi oil company, which was serving offshore...
...Neither Kuwait nor Saudi Arabia, both of which have supplied Iraq with billions of dollars, made any public comment on the attacks last week. But Iraq seemed to have broken an agreement under which Baghdad would continue receiving aid for its war against Iran in return for not attacking Iranian oil shipments. Despite its poor performance, Iraq launched yet another attack two days later. This time four ships in a convoy sailing toward the Iranian port of Bandar Khomeini were hit. A 16,000-ton Greek freighter, lapetos, caught fire and had to be abandoned. When Iran sent two helicopters...