Word: saudi
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...callous as Saddam, the losses of a few planes and missile batteries, a factory and a total of 50 casualties are pinpricks. But they were enough to unsettle America's allies. France, Britain, Russia, Syria, Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia all expressed concern...
...entire U.N. Security Council. By not overreacting to an escalating series of provocations by Saddam, the Western leaders reassured their electorates that they need not fear resumption of a full-scale war. Bush's moves were also calibrated to enlist the support of Arab allies, most important Saudi Arabia, which are wary of another divisive confrontation...
...attack was first ordered on Monday. But bad weather delayed its execution until Wednesday night, when 80 U.S. Navy and Air Force planes took off from the carrier Kitty Hawk and four air bases in Saudi Arabia. With 30 French and British warplanes joining in, they struck four SAM missile and four radar emplacements in the no-fly zone. Iraq responded with only light antiaircraft fire, and all the allied planes returned safely...
Over the past year, Hamas has expanded its links to fundamentalists outside the territories who are willing to bankroll it. According to intelligence reports, Iran has contributed $30 million this year. P.L.O. activists complain that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are also providing funds, and Israeli officials have even tracked funds from Muslim groups in the U.S. and Britain. Hamas can finance social institutions such as schools, medical clinics, charities and mosques that bolster its strength among the less religious. The P.L.O. still outspends Hamas in the territories, but the trend is in the fundamentalists' favor...
Corporal Sotak served in the Gulf War last year. "I wasn't too enthused about kicking sand for another month or two," he says. "But this is real different. We didn't have much contact with the people in Saudi. Here they're all around us. In Saudi we had a defined enemy. Here you don't know who you can trust. You don't know who's just trying to defend himself and who's robbing everybody...