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...partly funded some 210 Islamic centers, 1,500 mosques, 202 colleges and 2,000 schools in countries without Muslim majorities. Cambodia is one such place. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, Cambodia's Muslims, who make up 5% of the population, turned to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to help rebuild their mosques and schools. Accompanying the aid were teachers from those countries, with the result that today 10% to 15% of Cambodian Muslims are Wahhabis. Many go to Saudi Arabia to study. "They come back and are filled with fire and want to change...
...COUNTRY 1932 to present The kingdom was proclaimed on Sept. 23, 1932, but its borders have fluctuated. Neutral zones with Iraq and Kuwait existed until 1966 and 1981, respectively...
Deep inside the Pentagon, where young colonels arrive before dawn to revise once more the short list of available combat units ready to deploy overseas, a nightmare scenario hangs in the air, unmentioned but unmistakable. With 140,000 U.S. troops tied down stabilizing Iraq, 34,000 in Kuwait, 10,000 in Afghanistan and 5,000 in the Balkans, what good options would George W. Bush have if, say sometime next spring, North Korea's Kim Jong Il decided to test the resilience of the relatively small "trip-wire" force of 37,000 American troops in South Korea? Where would...
...with Iraq solely because of Saddam's possible attempts to purchase uranium. The U.S. argued that Saddam's government possessed a variety of weapons of mass destruction and had a history of aggression. Iraq's war against Iran, the occupation of Kuwait and missile attacks on Israel during the first Gulf War showed that Saddam's Iraq was a danger. Ian Reilly New York City...
...publicly accused of ordering the kidnapping and murder of a crusading journalist. Washington gave public support to thousands of demonstrators who demanded Kuchma quit last September. That was then; now Washington has another view. In February, Ukraine sent a 448-strong chemical-defense battalion to join coalition forces in Kuwait, and Americans are training the Ukrainians now deploying in Iraq. The first group flew out on Aug. 7. And criticism from Washington about Ukraine's corruption and democratic deficit has all but vanished. For Poland, the country in charge, the mission - its largest military deployment since World...