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Schwarzkopf had an unexpected opportunity to assess Iraqi preparedness two weeks ago. Hours before his arrival at a remote Saudi patrol post on the Kuwaiti border, 13 Iraqi soldiers turned up. According to Saudi officers, such peaceful incursions across the border by Iraqi troops seeking food and water are common. Some of them defect; others, fearing for the lives of their families, are allowed to return. While the Saudis debriefed their Iraqi guests, Schwarzkopf discovered one of their trucks had a transmission leak and a battery without water. "That shows the poor state of their maintenance," he said...
...Tigris. At 1 a.m., on the other side of the river, some 30 young men watch Indian movies on TV in a yard behind the city's open-air fish restaurants. In the noonday sun, Irish and Dutch hostages play water polo in the hotel pool. Relatively few soldiers patrol the streets. A couple of hundred at most man defense and ministerial facilities, bridges and the outer gates of the presidential palace. In the past two weeks Saddam has not made a public appearance, but he pops up often on TV, greeting the latest Arab dignitary or Palestine Liberation Organization...
...four men walked off, the student said, he turned the corner and found a Metropolitan Police patrol car on DeWolfe Street...
...Later that year, the royal family was shocked when 250 armed religious extremists occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Their defeat took two weeks and cost 229 lives. Suddenly the regime became more devout. Executions were stepped up. And the mutawa, the religious police, gained greater influence. Its members patrol the streets carrying slender sticks and striking transgressors, such as women who show too much skin or shopkeepers who don't close their shutters quickly enough for the five-times-a-day prayer sessions required of all Muslims...
...between the Americans and the Iraqi and Kuwaiti borders. U.S., Saudi and British fighter planes are monitored day and night by AWACS radar aircraft, which feed their information to an air-control station at Dhahran. The ground station relays flight instructions to all the fighters, which maneuver in assigned patrol sectors...