Word: kuwait
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...very professional. It seemed like a normal interview,” Hall said. “You would have never guessed that he was in Kuwait about...
...Owner John Constance, a two-term Sackets Harbor mayor and former-Marine, has a son-in-law, Major Pat Frank, with the 101st Airborne Division. Frank?s tent was one of the ones that was hit in March by grenades tossed by a fellow serviceman at Camp Pennsylvania, in Kuwait. Pat was returning from the showers when it happened. ?Its been such a strain on my poor daughter [Jennifer],? says Constance. ?It?s unfortunate he?s missing all this fun in our family, but the good thing is it?s keeping my daughter?s mind occupied...
...Numan served as military governor of Iraqi occupied Kuwait during the first Gulf War, presiding over a wave of torture, murder, rape, looting and other atrocities, as hundreds of the sheikdom's oil wells were set ablaze. A Shiite and tribal leader from Nasiriyya, he has been accused of using the most brutal methods to put down a Shiite rebellion in 1991 southern Iraq...
...Iraqi oil industry is at the moment a shambles, unable to produce enough crude oil and refined products to satisfy domestic demand, let alone export to the world. As gas stations in Baghdad run out, a black market has sent prices skyrocketing. When the U.S. trucked in gas from Kuwait last week, prices began dropping. Refineries are limping along, largely because of a lack of electric power. The Basra refinery, Iraq's second largest, is running at less than half of capacity for another reason: lack of chemical additives for the leaded fuel that Iraq's cars still...
...been saved from falling into communist hands and that the communists were blaming Brigadier General H. Norman Schwarzkopf "for alleged complicity in the coup." The paper said Schwarzkopf, whose namesake son would lead U.S. forces nearly a half-century later as they drove the Iraqi military out of Kuwait, had visited Iran "but only to see friends, the State Department said." TIME reported: "This was no military coup, but a spontaneous popular uprising...