Word: oman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With top level approval and ample funds now available, the FBI scam grew ever more elaborate. A swarthy agent, still unidentified, was picked to play the fictitious sheik, Kambir Abdul Rahman. Variously portrayed as being from Oman, Lebanon or the United Arab Emirates, the impostor set up temporary residence in a 62-ft. yacht that docked in several posh Florida marinas. As the flag vessel of the FBI'S secret fleet, the cruiser, seized by customs officials from marijuana smugglers, was first named the Left Hand and later the Corsair. "It gleamed with the predictable varnished parquet decks, teak...
...Saudis acknowledge that their security depends ultimately on U.S. power. To guard their independence, they abhor the thought of having U.S. bases on their own soil, but they would not be opposed to American outposts in Oman, Somalia or Kenya. The Saudis' first priority, however, is to build up their own forces. They are now confident that given the current cold war climate, the U.S. Congress will approve their purchase of 60 advanced F-15 fighter jets, though Riyadh is sensitive to any suggestion that the planes would be gifts. When told by a visiting Congressman that it looked...
...team will be quickly followed to Riyadh by another, led by the State Department's Political and Military Affairs Director Reginald Bartholomew and Matthew Nimetz, the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance. Its aim: to negotiate the use of military facilities in Somalia, Kenya or, most likely, Oman, which could become an important U.S. military outpost in the 1980s. Middle East Negotiator Sol Linowitz visited Saudi Arabia last week to talk about the ongoing Egyptian-Israeli negotiations over autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...that the address drew too specific a line against the Soviets and contained too many details. It described, for example, how U.S. forces would eventually be based at defensive facilities around the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean (the U.S. is negotiating for use of ports and airfields in Kenya, Oman and Somalia). It was argued that by making the speech more ambiguous, the President would retain more flexibility on critical questions, such as what specific Soviet actions would constitute a threat against U.S. interests in the Gulf region and how the U.S. would respond. Another debate was over how Carter...
...Carter's call for an annual 4.8% real increase in Pentagon spending over the next five years. More immediately, the U.S. could improve its military posture in the Middle East by obtaining bases there. Egypt and Israel have already offered use of their faculties; in the Indian Ocean region, Oman, Somalia and Kenya have indicated that they would be receptive to a U.S. request for bases. Currently, the only U.S. military installation in the Indian Ocean is an airstrip on the tiny island of Diego Garcia, about 1,000 miles off India's coast...