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...Oman Port The U.S. has been given access to a modern air base just off the coast of Oman...
...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made no secret of the fact that he was setting out to calm some nerves in a lightning whip around the Middle East Thursday, stopping in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Oman before heading for Uzbekistan, the former Soviet Republic that may well become the key forward base for any U.S. military action in Afghanistan. And in what appears to be a parallel mission, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair - who has shouldered a good part of the coalition building responsibilities on behalf of the Bush administration - headed for Russia and Pakistan...
...past is any guide, the U.S. will eventually get its way.) Another pair of carriers, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, could be ready to attack within a week. The Pentagon and the State Department have arranged for basing bombers and refueling planes in Bahrain and Oman. B-52 and B-2 bombers, flying from the U.S. and the tiny speck of Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean, will also be serviced by tankers flying out of Thailand. Air Force Special Operations MH-53J Pave Low helicopters may be based in both Uzbekistan and Pakistan...
...past century includes all kinds of diverse people, Christians as well as Jews and Muslims, Arabic speakers, Turks, Greeks and Armenians, Circassians, Georgians, Kurds and many others besides who may have very different ideas about all these events. And in terms of states, what do Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, let alone NATO member Turkey have in common? Much the same can be said of the category Arab which includes all those from quite diverse origins who happen to speak Arabic, many of whom are Christians of diverse denominations. Many in the great cities of the region would...
...largely empty) Hilton Hotel, was once the Dhofar that Zheng He's ships (though not, it seems, the admiral himself) sought out, in 1432 on their seventh voyage. The Salalah Holiday Inn slumbers near the spot where old Chinese coins were once discovered. The classified section of the Oman Daily Observer reports that someone named Zou Shichui has lost a Chinese passport - and one wonders which part of limbo the unfortunate now inhabits. To retrace the Chinese travels in Arabia is to see how the world is not always growing more connected, as we like to think, but often less...