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...ultraconservative foundation have funded terrorism around the world?a fact that earned two al-Haramain foreign offices a blacklisting by Washington in March?although probably without the knowledge of al-Haramain's headquarters in Riyadh. "Disreputable folks have penetrated al-Haramain and used its offices, funds and personnel for nefarious purposes," he says...
...police crackdown on a ring of alleged spies run by Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Police and government officials say republicans had vacuumed up more than a thousand sensitive documents, from conversations between Tony Blair and George W. Bush to personal details about security personnel. First Minister David Trimble, who negotiated the Belfast agreement for the unionists, was planning to take his party out of the government - thus causing its collapse - if Blair didn't put it in the freezer first. Trimble said he would have "a huge problem" trusting Sinn Fein again. "To make...
...news from Kuwait this week raised tensions at other U.S. facilities around the region, prompting increased security. For the past decade, the U.S. has maintained approximately 25,000 active personnel in the Gulf countries as part of the strategy of containing Iraq under the auspices of Operation Southern Watch, which maintains no-fly zones over southern Iraq, as well as the Multinational Interdiction Force that monitors shipping in and out of Iraq...
...Bahrain. The Pentagon already uses two Kuwaiti air bases and maintains a substantial ground force at that country's Camp Doha. Bahrain is home to the U.S. 6th Fleet, while Qatar hosts the biggest pre-positioned military hardware facility in the world - a brigade's worth of tanks, armored personnel carriers, ammo and other equipment. The United Arab Emirates and Oman have routinely allowed U.S. planes to come and go and may see a buildup of U.S. forces in the event of a war, while one of the biggest U.S. contingents in the Gulf is at Saudi Arabia's Prince...
...umbrella group of resistance forces—from using American funds to buy weapons, the abandonment of the INC just before its March 1995 offensive against the Iraqi army, the refusal to sponsor a peace-monitoring force to unite hostile Kurdish factions and the withdrawal of support from INC personnel in the northern “safe-haven” in 1996 (at which point they were ousted by Hussein’s tanks). If Clinton has now become a fierce proponent of “trying to strengthen” the Iraqi opposition, as he intimated last week...