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...EMIR OF QATAR In a belated observance of Father's Day, the Emir is ousted from power...
Thousands of U.S. troops continued to stream into the Persian Gulf region, despite surer signs of retreat by Saddam Hussein's forces. This morning, Saudi Arabia and five smaller oil nations -- Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait itself -- began deploying much of their 19,000-man "Peninsula Shield" in Kuwait, enough to match the number of U.S. forces now on Kuwaiti soil. Meanwhile, the U.S. operation's Central Command tells TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson that Iraq's forces are in close to full flight back north -- including what is believed to be the best of Saddam...
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...