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...quickly by a massive tank and infantry assault. So how come the ground war began in the last days of January with an Iraqi attack? On a penny-ante scale, with about 1,500 men and 80-odd tanks and other armored vehicles initially engaged? Aimed at a Saudi Arabian ghost town...
...Russian system of empire collapses and new structures take its place," says Ozal, "we can serve as a counter to the influences of religious extremism coming up from here" -- he points to Iran -- "and from here" -- he indicates the Arabian Peninsula. He believes he has persuaded the Kremlin, through its former Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, that "Turkey can play a stabilizing role inside the U.S.S.R...
Despite the fact that Harvard is heavily invested in oil and gas holdings compared to other universities, Meyer said the University will probably not make large-term gains unless Iraq knocks out key Saudi Arabian oil facilities. That would reduce the world's oil supply and cause large increases in the price of oil, which would benefit the oil companies in which Harvard holds stock...
...Bush must prove that Saddam Hussein was militarily capable of taking over Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arabian peninsula...
...mere generation ago, the people of the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf led a life little different from the one their ancestors had led since the advent of Islam. During migrations in search of water and trading locations, mainly from the Najd region of what is today the central part of Saudi Arabia, a group of tribes called the Bani Utub settled the town of Kuwait (in simple translation, Little Fort) in the early 1700s. With trade the major source of income, the tribes established a unique political system. Of the three most , influential families, the Khalifas...