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...pushed Japan to take a more active role abroad, including providing support for the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Also, the Japanese navy currently engages in refueling missions in the Indian Ocean to back up NATO-led antiterror operations in Afghanistan, while the air force ferries supplies and personnel from Kuwait to Baghdad and northern Iraq. That may not sound like much, but such operations would have been unthinkable to pacifist Japan as recently as a decade...
Twenty billion dollars in new U.S. arms shipments for Saudi Arabia and neighboring gulf states like Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the U.A.E. Another $13 billion in weaponry for Egypt. And Israel, ever mindful of maintaining an edge over its Arab neighbors, could get $30 billion worth of new U.S. equipment...
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...Poisoned Wells, a new book on African oil by Nicholas Shaxson, an associate fellow with international affairs institute Chatham House in London, the U.S. imported more oil from Africa than from the Middle East in 2005, and more from the Gulf of Guinea than from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait combined. Nigeria, the giant of the region, supplies 10-12% of U.S. oil imports. "There's a huge boom across the region," says Erik Watremez, a Gabon-based oil and gas specialist for Ernst & Young. "Exploration, drilling, rigs, pipes. It's exploding." Ann Pickard, Shell's regional executive vice president...
Dennis R. Slowinski, Captain U.S.A.F. ALI AL SALEM AIR BASE, KUWAIT...