Word: kuwait
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...We’re not going to try to emphasize that in the shows,” Orrell says. “I’m sure we’ll send shout-outs, ‘cause I have some buddies out in Kuwait right now, but we’re not going to have some political lecture where everyone’s sitting on the floor Indian-style...
...question is, Can anyone get the money back? Kuwait has tried for years. After allied troops expelled the Iraqis from Kuwait in 1991, the country launched a global dragnet to attach Iraqi assets. But little was ever recovered beyond $16 billion in reparations garnisheed from the proceeds of Iraq's official U.N. oil sales. As Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz suggested last week in testimony before Congress, any money that is found might also be used to defray the billions of dollars in costs the U.S. will incur if it invades Iraq. "There's a lot of money out there...
...very much in business. With 200,000 U.S. and British troops stationed in the Persian Gulf ready to move on Iraq, authorities feared that he would activate sleeper cells in the gulf states or recruit fresh volunteers for suicide attacks against U.S. military targets. His network of agents in Kuwait (where he was born to a Pakistani father) and in Qatar--two key staging posts for the U.S. command--are still intact, intelligence experts say. "This is the planner, the key planner of 9/11 and probably al-Qaeda's most active planner right up until his capture," says a White...
Krauthammer is completely wrong. A war against Iraq has nothing to do with establishing a democracy in the Middle East. Is Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Kuwait a democracy? Not at all. Each of these countries has been dependent on American aid for decades. The war will be about political power, economics, personal revenge and maybe the influence of right-wing evangelism on U.S. foreign policy but not about democracy. WALTER SCHAEFER Frankfurt...
...delay in war plans and might necessitate a smaller, less effective force's attacking Saddam's troops from the north. Forty ships carrying the 4th Infantry Division and its equipment have been awaiting orders to deploy to Turkey. If the vote stands, they will have to steam to Kuwait or other destinations to deploy by air to bases in Kurd-controlled northern Iraq--at least two weeks of extra travel. U.S. commanders say they can handle it. But the rejection is also a diplomatic blow that could set back U.S. efforts to get U.N. backing for the war against Iraq...