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...offered a different objection to the bill, saying that this would be a “step-backwards” in terms of removing the council from overt political stances. Lurie cited examples of position papers passed by previous councils that admonished the invasion of Kuwait in the first Gulf War, apartheid in South Africa and the purchasing of grapes farmed by migrant workers...
After getting in touch with a public affairs officer from the American army, Carlson got from Qatar to Kuwait, where he says he spent a week “dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.” He also had to settle the matter of getting someone to transport him over the uneasy Iraqi border...
Carlson says journalists staying in Kuwait advised him to call off the trip, citing their own near-death experiences as evidence that no driver could be trusted to protect his life in such a setting...
...muscle for hire, and he plied his trade, private security, in a place that for Americans is perhaps the most dangerous in the world. Zovko joined the Army in 1992, serving in the 82nd Airborne Division and qualifying for the Ranger corps. After tours of duty in Bosnia and Kuwait, he left the Army in 2001 and worked as a bodyguard for executives in Dubai. But Zovko, friends say, still yearned for adventure and the chance to make a difference in the world. As an employee of Blackwater USA, a private company hired by the Pentagon to provide security...
...More immediately, the response of the IGC and the Iraqi security forces to the events of the past week has raised serious doubts over the viability of the U.S. plan to transfer authority on June 30 to an as-yet undetermined Iraqi interim government. Even Kuwait, Washington's closest ally in the Arab world and the staging ground for the invasion, warned on Sunday that Iraq would break apart if the Bush administration insists on sticking to a June 30 deadline that it says would inevitably result in a weak Iraqi government...