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...case. According to a report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Al-Sayegh is a member of the Saudi Hizballah, a group with ties to Iran. If true, the news poses a difficult diplomatic problem for the U.S. of how to retaliate against a growing power in the Persian Gulf, notes TIME's Scott MacLeod. "A military response could escalate anti-American feeling throughout the Gulf, already high because of American support for Israel in the Palestinian crisis. On the other hand, U.S. officials would be dismayed to learn that the Khobar blast was the work of Saudi Sunnis, since...
...case. According to a report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Al-Sayegh is a member of the Saudi Hizballah, a group with ties to Iran. If true, the news poses a difficult diplomatic problem for the U.S. of how to retaliate against a growing power in the Persian Gulf, notes TIME's Scott MacLeod. "A military response could escalate anti-American feeling throughout the Gulf, already high because of American support for Israel in the Palestinian crisis. On the other hand, U.S. officials would be dismayed to learn that the Khobar blast was the work of Saudi Sunnis, since...
While Powell has a staff of only four, the third floor of his office building is teeming with summiteers. "It's getting wild around here, and I say that as someone who went through the Persian Gulf War," says Colonel Bill Smullen, Powell's top aide. With just two months to pull off a splashy national event, Powell conducts short, ruthlessly efficient meetings. Former Reaganaut Michael Deaver, a p.r. consultant, says, "You might think something is going to breeze through, but nothing gets by unchallenged. He hates to waste time; he makes decisions easily. He is absolutely in charge...
...than a million soldiers from the People's Liberation Army. But the 2.9 million left still operate more like a force trained to envelop an enemy with sheer numbers than one capable of responding rapidly with 21st century firepower. After watching a whole new way of warfare in the Persian Gulf, senior officers went on a buying spree. They came home last year with 50 Russian attack jets, two Russian destroyers, four diesel submarines and 70 fighter planes...
...PERSIAN GULF: An oil embargo, and the chance to make money off it, makes strange bedfellows. Case in point: Former mortal enemies Iraq and Iran, now working together to smuggle oil out of Iraq in defiance of the UN ban. The U.S. Navy has been monitoring a fleet of Iraqi ships that they believe are loaded with diesel fuel that travel down Iran's coast and use the country's territorial waters, where U.S. ships can not go, as cover before offloading at ports in Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Twice in recent weeks, U.S. Navy warships have been...