Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iraq, and there are said to be at least 25,000 Egyptian volunteers fighting on the Iraqi side against Iran. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has condemned such acts by moderate Arabs, but, even with his bursts of Iranian-inspired Shi'ite terrorism, he has not stopped them. In Kuwait last week, the government announced that 25 people, including 17 Iraqis, would go on trial beginning Feb. 11 on charges of carrying out bombings against the American and French embassies and other targets in December. At the time it appeared that those acts were part...
...Kuwait...
...overturning a clique of hard-line Marxists who had murdered Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, a milder Marxist. Suicide truck bombers, presumably Islamic Shi'ite zealots who share Iranian Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's belief that the U.S. is "the Great Satan," blew up the American embassies in Lebanon and Kuwait, as well as the headquarters of the U.S. Marine peace-keeping force at the Beirut airport, a shocking attack that killed 241 U.S. servicemen...
...trouble began when one or possibly two suicide terrorists rammed a truckload of explosives into the U.S. embassy compound in Kuwait, badly damaging one of the buildings in a towering explosion. Five people, none of them Americans, were killed in the blast; the toll could have been much higher, but the driver aimed his truck at a three-story administrative annex rather than the crowded chancellery building. About an hour later, a similar car bomb exploded just outside the French embassy, blowing a 30-ft. hole in the wall surrounding the compound. A crystal chandelier crashed onto Ambassador Jean Bressot...
...into the U.S. compound was an Iraqi member of the banned Al Dawa party, a fundamentalist Muslim group with ties to Iran. For years, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has branded the U.S. as "the Great Satan." He is also angry with France for selling military equipment to Iraq and with Kuwait for supporting and underwriting Iraq in its three-year-old war against Iran. The Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein immediately ordered missiles fired at five Iranian cities in retaliation...