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...Ottomans -- whose name came from the founding chieftain, Osman -- governed many of the same territories the Kremlin sought to dominate when Joseph Stalin expanded the bounds of Soviet power after World War II. At the zenith of the empire, in the reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in the 16th century, the Turks controlled most of present-day Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia. Parts of the U.S.S.R. were also Ottoman possessions: the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea, as well as the Caucasus, which include the strife-torn Soviet republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan...
Schwarzkopf's inspection was delayed by an unscheduled meeting with Sultan Mohammed al-Haza, administrator of a remote northern principality sparsely populated by Bedouin sheepherders. As incense wafted through the room, Schwarzkopf perfumed his hands in preparation for a lunch of chicken and rice. Observance of the ancient ritual of Arabian hospitality was reminiscent of his introduction to the exotic culture of the region 44 years ago. At age 12, Schwarzkopf spent a year in Iran, where his father, a major general, trained the Shah's imperial police during World...
Fahd's personal wealth, built on a fee levied on every barrel of oil extracted from Saudi land before 1980, is estimated at $18 billion, second only to the wealth of the Sultan of Brunei ($25 billion). He boasts at least 12 royal palaces, ranging from the $2.5 billion Al-Yamamah Palace complex in Riyadh to a "cottage" four times the size of the White House in Marbella, Spain. He owns several jets and yachts, all with gold bathroom faucets; his main yacht, a $60 million craft, is escorted by a vessel that carries Stinger antiaircraft missiles. His fleet...
...kingdom but has been turned away. Angered by King Hussein's vacillations on the gulf crisis, King Fahd has refused calls from the Jordanian monarch, who also ranks high on the Saudi dole list. By refusing to condemn Saddam, the Yemenites have so infuriated Riyadh that Defense Minister Prince Sultan hung up on President Ali Abdullah Saleh when he phoned recently...
Bush has repeatedly said he ordered American forces to Saudi Arabia only to deter Iraqi aggression and, if necessary, repel it. For defensive purposes, the military coordination at most levels seems workable. Schwarzkopf and the Saudi commander, Lieut. General Khalid bin Sultan, meet several times a day, as do their main deputies. U.S. ground troops have been assigned to a sector along the gulf and south of Kuwait, while 30,000 Saudi and Islamic troops are deployed west of U.S. positions and in the far north, a thin line between the Americans and the Iraqi and Kuwaiti borders. U.S., Saudi...