Word: qatari
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...other counts for the border battles as a whole ran as high as 80 vehicles. Correspondents who were allowed into Khafji Thursday afternoon reported that the streets were littered with the burning hulks of Soviet-made armored personnel carriers, knocked out by American TOW missiles fired by Saudi and Qatari infantrymen. U.S. Marines lost three light armored vehicles (LAVs) in the fighting around Umm Hujul...
...military terms, the incursion is a disaster for Iraq, as Saudi and Qatari troops, backed by U.S. Marines, capture or kill hundreds of Saddam Hussein's soldiers. But the Iraqi leader may count the clash as a psychological victory, proving that his forces can stand up to a superpower. In the air war the allies claim supremacy, but what about the hundreds of Iraqi planes still hidden in bunkers? And the 100 or so that mysteriously winged to Iran...