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...live in a permanent compound with a big central building where we eat and have a library and architectural workrooms," says Mitten. "We work there very comfortably. "It's sometimes frustrating, but it's an extremely exciting site. The chance to work on this with out Turkish colleagues is especially rewarding. We try to give students who come out for training an idea of international collaboration. That's the foundation on which the Sardis operation works...
...highly critical reports added fuel to the intensifying national debate on the Marine deployment. Both spoke of the lax security around the Marine compound at the Beirut airport before it was blown up by a suicidal truck driver on Oct. 23, killing 241 U.S. servicemen (see following story). Republican Congressman Larry Hopkins, one of the authors of a report by a House subcommittee, went beyond the security question to criticize the "peacekeeping" role of the Marines. Said he: "The people in the Mideast have been fighting since the days of Abraham. Asking our Marines to stop the fighting there...
...trouble began when one or possibly two suicide terrorists rammed a truckload of explosives into the U.S. embassy compound in Kuwait, badly damaging one of the buildings in a towering explosion. Five people, none of them Americans, were killed in the blast; the toll could have been much higher, but the driver aimed his truck at a three-story administrative annex rather than the crowded chancellery building. About an hour later, a similar car bomb exploded just outside the French embassy, blowing a 30-ft. hole in the wall surrounding the compound. A crystal chandelier crashed onto Ambassador Jean Bressot...
According to Kuwaiti newspapers, the terrorist who drove into the U.S. compound was an Iraqi member of the banned Al Dawa party, a fundamentalist Muslim group with ties to Iran. For years, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has branded the U.S. as "the Great Satan." He is also angry with France for selling military equipment to Iraq and with Kuwait for supporting and underwriting Iraq in its three-year-old war against Iran. The Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein immediately ordered missiles fired at five Iranian cities in retaliation...
...this activity stopped abruptly with the terrorist bombing of Marine headquarters in October. Now, says Suro, "the compound is like the rest of Beirut; sudden and unpredictable violence is always a possibility. Little America has become ground zero...