Word: kuwaiti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million people Shi'ites, Kuwait is highly vulnerable to those who aim to spread Islamic fundamentalism throughout the Middle East. "Now the whole question of Shi'ite Muslim vs. Sunni Muslim has been reopened in our society," notes the publisher of an influential Kuwaiti newspaper. "If there is any destructive force within our country, it is the sectarian issue." That the issue is incendiary was proved at the conclusion of the 45-day trial. The terrorists were whisked away in armed personnel carriers manned by soldiers with machine guns. Judge Sammar was driven home in an armor-plated...
...Persian Gulf and affect oil shipments of such Iraqi neighbors and benefactors as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Last week those fears came closer to facts. Baghdad sent the French planes into action, striking two ships. As it happened, neither was carrying Iranian oil, and both were under contract to Kuwaiti and Saudi oil companies...
...flying missile fitting the description of a radar-controlled Exocet reportedly hit a 41,000-ton Greek tanker, Filikon L., that was more than 70 miles away from Kharg Island. The ship, under contract to the Kuwait Petroleum Corp., had just loaded up with fuel at the Kuwaiti port of Mina al Ahmadi. Damage proved relatively minor, but a second ship hit in the same attack was not so lucky. A South Korean supply vessel under contract to Aramco, the Saudi oil company, which was serving offshore rigs at the Saudi oilfields of Marjon, exploded, caught fire and sank...
George A. Craddock '84 applied to the Association Atlantique expecting to spend his summer in France at a teller's window. Instead, he found himself in the currency-trading department of the Kuwaiti-French Bank, getting "exposure to the Euromarket" and as many days off as he wanted...
According to Kuwaiti newspapers, the terrorist who drove into the U.S. compound was an Iraqi member of the banned Al Dawa party, a fundamentalist Muslim group with ties to Iran. For years, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has branded the U.S. as "the Great Satan." He is also angry with France for selling military equipment to Iraq and with Kuwait for supporting and underwriting Iraq in its three-year-old war against Iran. The Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein immediately ordered missiles fired at five Iranian cities in retaliation...