Word: kuwait
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Here's a tale for our times. Last week Ali Abbas, the 13-year-old Iraqi boy who lost his arms during an air raid on Baghdad, continued his recuperation in a hospital in Kuwait, wearing a T shirt emblazoned with a picture of his hero, an English soccer star who was about to start a promotional tour of Japan after having just been traded to a Spanish club in a deal - vital to the fortunes of a German shoe company - that merited an editorial in the New York Times and that was brokered by a sports agency owned...
...sabotage. So, on the first night of the war, when others were trying to destroy Iraqi targets, the men of the Naval Special Warfare Task Group were trying to save one. Large, specially equipped Pave Low helicopters flew dark, low and fast toward the refinery from just over the Kuwait border. Dispersing on arrival, the choppers simultaneously dropped five separate teams of 20 Navy SEAL commandos each at five "key nodes" around the huge complex. Their orders: hold each target until relieved by 1,000 Royal Marines. It was a mission for which the SEALs, along with elements...
...more studying than investing in the Iraq market. What's hot? Satellite-phone guys roam the streets, charging a buck per minute of chatter. Satellite-dish salesmen line the highways from Jordan, hawking devices banned by Saddam. And some SUVs, pronounced "Jim-ses" (think GMCs), are coming in from Kuwait and selling at a discount. "Everything is a bit hectic right now," Ramadan says. But he and brother Zeyad, 31, plan to open a computer-training business in Baghdad by the end of the year...
Finnigan’s younger brother, Tom Finnigan, 24, is also a Marine and he too is in Kuwait. He is with a Civil Affairs Group—working with Iraqi civilians to rebuild the country...
...don’t expect it to be a lot of fun, but it’s an important job,” Moulton wrote in a letter to his brother Cy Moulton—a student at Bowdoin College—during the 40-day voyage to Kuwait...