Word: qataris
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even a modest reformer prevail in a deeply conservative region? Qatar has a defense agreement with Washington, but the U.S. may not protect an Emir who is cozy with Iran and Iraq. Qatari traditionalists and some Western analysts believe it is naive to push democratic values in a society where many customs have remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. Over lunch, Hamad did something that still seems unthinkable to many. He introduced one of his three wives, Jassem's mother, who was modestly dressed in an ankle-length suit rather than in the customary robe. As she spoke of improving...
...Associated Press, sneaked into the city on the first night of fighting and watched as Arab troops tried to retake the town. "The pools did not get an accurate view ((of the battle)) because they didn't see it," says King. "They wrote that the Saudi and Qatari liberated the city, but they had no realistic view of how long it took, what happened or how many Iraqis were in there." The best footage of the battle came from two French TV crews and a team from Britain's Visnews, which were in Khafji well before U.S. pool cameramen. (Little...
...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...