Word: riyadh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goals of the U.S.-led coalition. Yet few diplomats, including top U.S. specialists, doubt that Tehran is determined to remain a bystander in the conflict. "I would be flabbergasted if Iran made a 180 degrees turn, violated the U.N. resolutions and sacrificed its neutrality," says a European envoy in Riyadh. Says a senior British diplomat in London: "Iran has nothing to gain by getting involved in the war against the allies. Among other things, its military is in terrible shape as a result of the Iran-Iraq...
...Riyadh, Washington and London buzzed with speculation about Saddam's strategy. The most popular theories...
Statistically, the Iraqis took a beating. By Friday afternoon the Saudis and Qataris had captured 500 Iraqis in and around Khafji, according to a U.S. briefing officer in Riyadh. Allied officials said 30 Iraqis were killed and another 37 were wounded. Saudi casualties were not much lighter: 18 dead, 29 wounded and four missing...
...such reservations about the gulf war; he wants only to win it fast and suffer the fewest casualties possible. Apart from that, Schwarzkopf is concerned that his long hours in the Riyadh war room prevent him from visiting his troops as often as he would like. When he does venture out, he is always accompanied by four military bodyguards in civilian clothes and armed with AR- 15 rifles. On a recent tour, Schwarzkopf gazed across the Saudi border into Kuwait and declared that it was the most peaceful moment he had had in weeks. Then it was the general speaking...
...intricate communication network that now crisscrosses the gulf. This elaborate command-and-control system enables allied generals to coordinate not only the American land, sea and air forces but also those of its coalition partners. The brains of the operation are housed in a government building in Riyadh, where an encrypted book of flight schedules and bombing targets is generated every 24 hours and is broadcast to individual commanders by satellite, microwave and secure telephone lines...