Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comfortably at home over vacation, the world will be moving closer to the January 15 United Nations Security Council deadline for military confrontation if Iraq does not withdraw its troops from Kuwait. With 400,000 troops expected to be in Saudi Arabia by January, we should use the time to make ourselves as informed as possible about the situation...
...Harvard student group opposed to war in the Middle East tabled outside of Widener library yesterday, seeking to garner support for the removal of U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia...
...tactical doctrine that would take over then is called Air-Land by Pentagon planners. As described by American commanders in Saudi Arabia, it would go like this: first the Air Force, while continuing to interdict supply lines, would switch to direct bombing and strafing of Iraqi troops, possibly including carpet bombing by B-52s based in Saudi Arabia and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia to clear out Iraqi minefields. American artillery firing Copperhead shells, which use a laser-guided homing device, and multiple-rocket launchers would subject Saddam's troops to a murderous hail of ground fire. Missile...
...host of other troubles bedevils the coalition. Moscow is too busy with domestic crises to do more than offer moral support. Understandably, popular enthusiasm for a foreign military adventure is not great at a time when Soviet mothers are still mourning sons killed in Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia and Syria cringe at the idea of a conflict pitting Arab against Arab. They remain uncomfortable with being -- at least theoretically -- aligned with Israel, which, though it has no troops committed to the gulf, is undoubtedly in favor of striking Iraq. Waiting for war may not corrode strength of arms, but it does...
...that Iraq's 15-year effort to develop nukes could succeed within the next few months. "Those who would measure the timetable for Saddam's atomic program in years may be seriously underestimating the reality of that situation," Bush declared during his Thanksgiving Day visit to the troops in Saudi Arabia...