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...What were Kuwaiti women allowed to do for the first time on June 29 this year...
...started working for a telecommunications company in Sudan. He got his Ph.D. in the then-obscure field of mobile telecommunications, and eventually started a company called Celtel to develop mobile phone services in Africa. By 2005 it was operating all over the continent and was sold to a Kuwaiti company for $6 billion - the source of Ibrahim's wealth. He contends that Celtel never paid a bribe, and argues its success proves that real money can be made honestly in Africa - much of which, despite its bad press, is peaceful and ripe for development...
...what Allah looks like, but the Koran is said to reveal his 99 attributes (often referred to as his 99 names, such as "the Majestic" and "the Timeless"). Each is embodied in a different superhero in a new comic-book series called The 99, created by a Kuwaiti-born entrepreneur...
...become a parking lot. Iran could plant mines and launch dozens of armed boats into the bottleneck, choking off the shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz and causing a massive disruption of oil-tanker traffic. A low-key Iranian mining operation in 1987 forced the U.S. to reflag Kuwaiti oil tankers and escort them, in slow-moving files of one and two, up and down the Persian Gulf. A more intense operation would probably send oil prices soaring above $100 per bbl.--which may explain why the Navy wants to be sure its small fleet of minesweepers is ready...
...Bush made his comments about the leak during a speech about the global war on terrorism, in which he spoke more broadly about his "freedom agenda" for democratizing the Middle East. "Look, I'm pleased with the progress," he said. "I was reading the other day where Kuwaiti women are running for office. It's a positive sign, you know? We've got to be realistic about what's possible, but we've got to be firm in our belief that freedom is possible and necessary." Bush was referring to a local election last week in which Kuwait allowed women...