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...enemies of the Arab people," according to Iraqi reports. Jordan's King Hussein publicly applauded the attack. Kuwait's official news agency, which reflects the views of the ruling family, adopted a hawkish, pro-Iraq stand. To varying degrees, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman all jumped on the Iraqi bandwagon...
Among the small gulf states, Dubai appears to be genuinely neutral, evidently because of its large Persian minority. The other United Arab Emirates, as well as Oman, Qatar and Bahrain, all root under their breath for Iraq. Despite apprehensions about Saddam Hussein's long-term military and political ambitions, they sense a more imminent threat from Iran. Bahrain in particular is nervous about Tehran, not only because the mullahs have revived ancient Iranian claims to its territory but because Bahrain's Sunni Emir rules a population over half of whom are Shi'ites...
...miles, from the Shatt-al-Arab in Iraq to the Musandam peninsula in Oman, a shallow, aquamarine trough of water glistens under the brutal sun-the Persian, or Arabian Gulf, depending on the side of the water on which one stands. On either shore, the Arabian and Iranian plateaus form some of the most uninviting landscape anywhere: endless vistas of desert and rock, so desolate that in one stretch in Saudi Arabia it is known as Rub'al Khali-the Empty Quarter...
...restaurants and manage hotels-a large and disquieting foreign presence. Educated Egyptians and Palestinians occupy key professional posts, even serving as top advisers to heads of state. The Palestinian diaspora, estimated to be 400,000 through the gulf, has been the major factor in the gulf states' refusal-Oman is the exception-to support the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Brief Baedekers on the Arab gulf nations...
...OMAN. Ten years ago, Oman (pop. 800,000) was one of the most underdeveloped nations in the Arab world. It had only three elementary schools, a handful of doctors and nurses, and was ruled by tyrannical Sultan Said bin Taimur, who hoarded state revenues (all in gold) in the basement of his palace. Finally, his Sandhurst-educated son, Qaboos, then 29, staged a palace coup and set about bringing the country into the 20th century. Today Oman boasts 375 schools and 14 modern hospitals. A rebellion in the Dhofar region, fanned by Marxist South Yemen, has been snuffed...