Word: kuwaiti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Three Kings seems at first quite fantastical: four bored soldiers, AWOL with a hum-vee, searching for buried treasure. With the grizzled Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), a disillusioned officer leading their illicit adventure, these swashbucklers embark upon their search for hidden Kuwaiti gold led by a secret map concealed in a captured Iraqi's ass, affectionately dubbed "the ass map," with a duffell bag filled with grenade rigged nerf footballs. Denied any of the war's action, these four soldiers enthusiastically seek their last chance to blow things up, now that the war is officially over. Russell goes...
...been dipping, could be used for the Republican Guards. French and Russian companies are betting that pumping oil now will give them a permanent foothold in Iraq's rich oil fields when sanctions are finally lifted. France is still smarting at being shut out of the Saudi and Kuwaiti markets after the Gulf War, and both France and Russia would like nothing better than to keep the U.S. out of Iraq's oil fields for good...
...been dipping -- could be used for the Republican Guards. French and Russian companies are betting that pumping oil now will give them a permanent foothold in Iraq's rich oil fields when sanctions are finally lifted. France is still smarting at being shut out of the Saudi and Kuwaiti markets after the Gulf War, and both France and Russia would like nothing better than to keep the U.S. out of Iraq's oil fields for good...
...keen to revive relations with its old trading partner. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are mindful of growing fundamentalist and dissident oppositions that demand Muslim solidarity above all. Frustration over the lack of peace progress colors the reaction elsewhere in the Arab world. Fearing the impact of a real rift, Kuwaiti officials fanned out to make sure the rest of the gulf understood their support for U.S. military moves. "Their message," says a Western official, "was to get attention off the U.S. missile strikes and on Saddam's threat...
...Saddam has provoked some allies to think about a rift in the making potentially graver than the latest hubbub. Even in Kuwait, where eagerness to unseat Saddam runs high, officials wonder if the U.S. is dangerously ignoring the region's other and perhaps greater threat: Iran. "Seventy percent of Kuwaitis just want to get rid of Saddam," says Mohammed al-Qadiri, a Kuwaiti businessman and former government official. "But the rest worry that if he goes, Iran will step in, and that, my friend, is real trouble." Some of Kuwait's top leaders have counseled against deposing Saddam because...