Word: saudi
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WASHINGTON (AP.)--President Clinton's top military advisers face tough questioning as two Senate committees begin investigations into the June 25 terrorist truck bombing that left 19 U.S. Air Force personnel dead in Saudi Arabia...
...letter sent to Capitol Hill in advance of the hearing, Perry said U.S. military forces based in Saudi Arabia took extensive steps to improve security prior to last month's deadly blast at Dhahran. But in an acknowledgement that more could have been done, Perry also outlined measures ordered after the bombing to protect against terrorism...
...that policy in the aftermath of the Gulf War, the U.S. has dramatically increased its presence in the region--indeed, the gulf is the only major theater in the world where the American military is expanding. Before the war there were rarely more than 1,000 American troops in Saudi Arabia at any one time and even fewer in any neighboring country. Today there are about 20,000 U.S. troops in the area. About half are afloat in the gulf, while Air Force, Army and Marine personnel operate out of four bases in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia (there...
...Saudi Arabia and the other gulf states may still be a long way from becoming like Iran under the Shah, but the U.S. plans to stay in the gulf a long time. If more incidents like that at Dhahran are not to occur and if the region is to remain stable, the U.S. must act with care as it rapidly expands its permanent presence. Is the U.S. properly sophisticated about these matters? Comments after the bombing by General Kurt Anderson, commander of the Joint Task Force Southwest Asia, are not encouraging. Asked why Americans were attacked, Anderson said...
SCOTT MACLEOD, TIME's veteran middle East reporter, was in the Emirate of Bahrain, just minutes away from boarding a flight to Paris, when he got word of the terrorist bomb attack at the American military compound near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Without a moment's hesitation, he had his luggage removed from the plane and started working on getting a visa. It was hardly a sure thing, since MacLeod had recently reported a TIME story that the Saudi royal family found displeasing. But by the next day he was at the scene of the explosion. "It was my misfortune...