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Over the past year, Hamas has expanded its links to fundamentalists outside the territories who are willing to bankroll it. According to intelligence reports, Iran has contributed $30 million this year. P.L.O. activists complain that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are also providing funds, and Israeli officials have even tracked funds from Muslim groups in the U.S. and Britain. Hamas can finance social institutions such as schools, medical clinics, charities and mosques that bolster its strength among the less religious. The P.L.O. still outspends Hamas in the territories, but the trend is in the fundamentalists' favor...
...wellheads. Someone standing near the al-Ahmadi oil field will find his shirt quickly covered with malignant black droplets that fall like an epoxy rain. The heat of the fires pushes much of the unburned oil high into the sky; it has rained down as far away as Qatar, 645 km (400 miles) to the south, and appeared as black snow in the Indian state of Kashmir, 2,600 km (1,600 miles) to the east...
Saudi Arabia and its neighbors -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates -- are the first Arab states after Egypt to agree to sit down and talk formally with Israel. That alone, says Baker, "will break at least one major taboo." A Saudi official in Washington agrees: "The camel's nose is in the tent...
...into Saudi Arabia. They entered along a stretch of border that began north of Khafji and ended at the town of Umm Hujul, 50 miles to the west. By the next night they had occupied the town. Supported by U.S. air and artillery attacks, troops from Saudi Arabia and Qatar retook Khafji the following day after 12 hours of fierce fighting...
...Saddam had intended the raid to lure allied forces into a ground war before they were ready, he failed. Not only did troops from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the U.S. repel the invaders, but Saddam's ploy actually contributed to the success of the allied ground offensive. The battle provided U.S. military planners with their first opportunity to see how Iraq's troops operated against American mobile tactics. The Iraqis performed badly, surrendering en masse when the Marines counterattacked. "They showed us they couldn't handle combined operations," says a senior Pentagon official. "They maneuvered but couldn't work effectively...