Word: kuwait
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...punishable by death and brutally suppressed the movement. Like much of the Dawa leadership, al-Jaafari fled to Iran and then to Britain. The group's past activities are murky. Al-Jaafari was a member of Dawa's political wing when it bombed the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait and the Iraqi embassy in Beirut in the 1980s. Al-Jaafari has denied any involvement in the attacks...
...been killed there, and one badly injured. But local director Sakiusa Raivoce says his recruits know and accept the risks. "There are a lot of people here who want to work in Iraq," says the former Fijian Army colonel, whose office is decked with mementoes of his service in Kuwait, Sinai and Lebanon. "My pool can never...
...soldiers' good luck set many civilians dreaming of Middle East riches. They soon got their chance: last November, newly formed Meridian Services began hiring truck drivers, mechanics, storemen and computer operators for the Kuwait-based Public Warehousing Company, which transports into Iraq "everything from frozen food to vehicles and construction materials," says Meridian director Timoci Lolohea. Salaries start at $1,700 a month, and "the response from the public has been overwhelming." Nine hundred men are already in Kuwait, and Meridian staff are touring rural villages in a drive to sign up another 4,000 workers, including women...
...vacuum left by the fading might of the warlords, who destroyed Mogadishu after Mohammed Siad Barre was ousted in 1991. The most determined opposition will come from the Islamic courts. Started as small-scale operations set up by the city's clans, they gained influence when Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Islamic countries provided funding as part of a drive to promote Islam. Now the courts have become one of the city's most powerful political forces. For now, they are avoiding head-on confrontation with the government and have denied playing a role in the desecration of the Italian...
...said I was crazy," says Massimo Suppancig, the CEO of Valextra, a 67-year-old Milan-based leather-goods company once famous for catering to the likes of Maria Callas and Grace Kelly. In its heyday, Valextra had been known for filling extravagant custom orders-the Emir of Kuwait once commissioned 14 sets of hippopotamus-skin luggage. But over the past two decades, the business had declined and licensing deals had diminished the name. Enter Suppancig in 2003, a former Hugo Boss and Escada executive who immediately recognized the brand's rich heritage and set to work revitalizing Valextra...