Word: saudi
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...particular, is portrayed as worrying about the possibility of getting bogged down in a costly, open-ended land war, and as being "in real agony" about Bush's often inflamed rhetoric. Woodward writes that Powell, like most Democrats in Congress, for some time favored a defensive deployment in Saudi Arabia plus economic sanctions against Iraq. Once he had received his orders and had been assured of adequate forces on the ground, however, Powell appears to have saluted and done his job. Similarly, says Woodward, Secretary of State James Baker started out favoring sanctions but eventually came around to the President...
...Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon. Also present would be Palestinian representatives, seeking to enhance their political power in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. If the Palestinians could be satisfied, Baker believes, Syria and Jordan could bury their differences with Israel. So could other Arab states like Saudi Arabia, now slated to attend the parley in some adjunct status...
Last week as American troops turned over an observation post north of Safwan to U.N. observers, both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia tried to assure the refugees that their worst dreams were not coming to pass. Colonel William Nash, commanding officer of U.S. forces in Safwan, told General Gunther Greindl, head of the U.N. observer force, "We will continue to protect the refugees in this area." In Saudi Arabia, General Khalid bin Sultan al-Saud, head of the Saudi forces during the war, announced that his government would accept and shelter the stranded Iraqis by building a $30 million camp...
Among the Safwan refugees, news of the aid met with mixed emotions. Many of the better-educated refugees are wary about moving to what could become a permanent camp in the Saudi desert. Still, as a Baghdad professor put it, "Any country in the world is better than Iraq...
...liberation of Kuwait sent a powerful message: here at last was a leader who was blunt, not glib; passionate, not packaged, with the carriage of a man of courage and principle. Even then, it was hard to imagine that he would willingly trade the high challenges of the Saudi desert for the sandbox that is American politics...