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...adjacent to Fort Stewart, home of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division--the barbershop outside the base's main gate has started trimming women's hair because the number of $5 buzz cuts favored by G.I.s has dropped 70%. By the time the entire division is shipped out to Kuwait, the town's population will have shrunk by a third...
...after the war. Capt. Doug Rokke, who headed these operations, said in the same documentary it took three months to prepare them and a full three years to clean them up. Rokke described the “thousands and thousands” of contaminated vehicles all over Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo which have yet to be cleaned. He himself now has lung and kidney problems while he claims that many other members of his clean-up team have subsequently fallen ill or are dying of cancer. Rokke’s conclusion? “If you can?...
Years later, during Cheney's tenure as Defense Secretary, his preference for American forcefulness was reinforced when, in the weeks before Iraq overran Kuwait, the U.S. sent mixed signals to Saddam Hussein about the consequences of an invasion. According to friends and aides, Cheney believes that if the U.S. had been more forceful in threatening retaliation against Iraq, Saddam might have stood down and the Gulf War would have been avoided. "You have to be clear and forceful about U.S. intentions," says a current adviser to Cheney. "That way nobody misunderstands our resolve...
...hawk during the Persian Gulf crisis and clashed frequently with Powell, who was cautious about using the military to expel Iraq from Kuwait. But Cheney never strayed far from the official line coming out of the White House. He asked early on after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait whether the U.S. should consider overthrowing Saddam Hussein, but abandoned the idea quickly. It fell to Cheney to secure support from Arab leaders for pushing Saddam out of Kuwait, support gained with the promise that the U.S. had no intention of marching to Baghdad. Like the other principal players in that...
...financial products for small businesses and middle-income individuals are only beginning to catch on in Europe. One exception is Britain, where Islamic banking - including investments, mutual funds and other share-buying options - is rapidly expanding to serve the country's estimated 2.5 million Muslims. The United Bank of Kuwait (UBK) introduced Shari'a home-purchase plans in Britain in 1997; in the past three years it has sold some 600 of its Ijara plans (see illustration) and now approves about 30 a month. Shorof Uddin, a 27-year-old forensic accountant, is awaiting his home-purchase plan approval with...