Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lieut. General Sir Peter de la Billiere, British commander in Saudi Arabia, describing a potential war with Iraq...
...necessary means" to evict Saddam's soldiers from Kuwait, with selective air raids on military targets in Iraq. But those supposedly "surgical strikes," all sources agree, could quickly escalate to a massive aerial bombing campaign carried out by 700 American attack planes flying out of ground bases in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, plus 200 more taking off from the six aircraft carriers the U.S. will have stationed in the region...
...will surely interpret these anti-war sentiments in the United States as a sign of unwillingness to go to war with Iraq. He will choose not to pull out of Kuwait, but to wait and see. Our president's effort of sending our young men and women to the Saudi desert and getting international support would likely be perceived by the Iraqis as a bluff...
...additional 10,000 U.S. troops also arrived in the Persian Gulf, Hall said. The 350,000-strong multinational force now includes about 250,000 Americans, most of them dug into the Saudi Arabian desert facing Iraqi troops...
...Iraqi armed forces should maintain the highest degree of alert and vigilance," Saddam said, "because the forces of aggression remain on our sacred soil in Saudi Arabia, fanning the flames of fire...