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Khalid and Ali had been born in the West Bank, had come to Kuwait as small boys, had won high marks at Kuwaiti schools and had attended college in the U.S. Kuwait was and is the only country they have ever known, and both men had risked their lives aiding the Kuwaiti resistance. They regularly moved money and guns around the city in Ali's white Chevrolet Sprint and had obtained a fake Iraqi identity card for the Plaza's Kuwaiti owner...
...nearby mosque and determined that he would rather forfeit his life than aid in the planned rape. Sometime before morning, however, Colonel Rida and thousands of other Iraqi troops pulled out of the city. Over the next 24 hours, many of the retreating soldiers (and an undetermined number of Kuwaiti hostages accompanying them) died as allied aircraft bombed the highway that led back to Iraq. "We can only pray that Rida was one of them," says Khalid...
...they will probably remain in Kuwait. They are among the very few lucky Palestinians. "If you can call it lucky," says Ali. "Even with Hamad giving us work, daily life is hard. People who talk nicely to me turn harsh when they find out I'm Palestinian. My Kuwaiti friends say I shouldn't visit because they will be branded Palestinian lovers. And God help me if I get into a traffic accident with a Kuwaiti, even if he is at fault. I'm the one the police will blame, and surely I will be beaten before I'm released...
...Saddam remains in power; yes, his defeated army turned its guns on Iraq's own people, slaughtering tens of thousands of Shi'ite and Kurdish rebels while allied troops stood on the sidelines; yes, the restored Kuwaiti monarchy has made no progress toward democratization and has itself been guilty of human-rights violations; and yes, Secretary of State James Baker's attempt to bring Israel and its Arab neighbors together has met with nothing but frustration. Still, more than 3 out of 4 people questioned in a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman believe...
...night of the rally, Gallagher stood behind the approved speakers, trying to light the nylon flag for more than 10 minutes to the jeers of the crowd, many of whom didn't know whether it was an Iraqi or a Kuwaiti flag. Several students tried to wrestle the flag from him, but Gallagher held on so tightly that a scuffle ensued...