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Ironically, some parts of the Kuwaiti desert may indirectly benefit from the war. Much of the battle was fought on sandy or stony surfaces that had already been deformed almost beyond redemption by generations of Bedouin shepherds and, more recently, caravans of joyriders and hunters in all-terrain vehicles. The presence of hundreds of thousands of unexploded Iraqi mines in and around Kuwait will make both groups think twice about visiting their favorite haunts, thus giving large stretches of desert a chance to heal...
...Saudi Arabia on five separate occasions to report on the war. During each trip, he made sure to go to the mountainous resort of Taif to visit with Kuwait's ruling family and the government in exile. In his story this week, Kramer shares his unique perspective on the Kuwaitis and tells what he found when he entered the ransacked shell of Kuwait City with six Kuwaiti ministers...
Mike, who has covered wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Beirut, finds himself treading lightly in Kuwait. British troops disarmed a booby-trapped doorway at an amusement park he went to visit. Later he was detained for four hours by a young Kuwaiti soldier who didn't understand his ID papers. "Things can get a little tense, and you have to watch yourself," he said. "The soldiers at the checkpoints get shot at almost every night. You never go out alone...
...morning on Sunday, March 3, in the shadow of Kuwait City's Maryam Mosque, a Kuwaiti resistance member who calls himself Mike leaned his French-made automatic rifle into the chest of his childhood friend Mustafa al- Kubaisi. He whispered, "This is your last night," and fired. Unsatisfied by the effect of the single shot, Mike used his 7.65-mm MAB pistol to put another round into Mustafa's head...
...Awadi, a physician who long served as his country's Health Minister and is now Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs. Everyone has witnessed an atrocity or has a tale to tell. Al-Awadi turns pale when he recalls the story of an Iraqi patrol that spotted some Kuwaiti children playing in the street. "They were told to stop, and all but one did," says al-Awadi. "That one was picked up by the hair by an Iraqi soldier -- he was still holding his soccer ball -- and shot in the head in front of the other kids." Some of Mike...