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About 100,000 U.S. soldiers are dug into the Saudi Arabian desert south of the Kuwaiti border along with several thousand Arab troops. Scores of U.S. and other warships have assembled in the Persian Gulf region, where they are enforcing the U.N.-sanctioned embargo on trade with Iraq...
...stocks of staples to last several more weeks, but fresh fruits and vegetables are quickly disappearing. Poorly equipped Iraqi soldiers, who apparently have little or no food with them, have their own answers to the shortages. The invading forces, which were disciplined and relatively well behaved, knocked on Kuwaitis' doors to ask for handouts. Those troops are gone now, replaced by a scruffy army of "volunteers," mostly teenagers and retirees armed with AK-47s. They simply enter houses and take food. They seem to regard their mission as a nasty game of Supermarket Sweepstakes. Ron Jack, an American escapee...
There is a Kuwaiti resistance movement, but its effectiveness is difficult to assess. A refugee in Saudi Arabia who identifies himself only as Hussein says Kuwaiti soldiers and police distributed weapons to citizens on the day of the invasion, but there is a shortage of bullets. Refugees say that resistance groups mount hit-and-run attacks by night, targeting small units of Iraqi soldiers and military convoys with Molotov cocktails and hand grenades. When Iraq's intelligence service arrived in Kuwait City with a list of names and addresses of Kuwaiti army officers, civilians went around the city removing house...
...Riyadh that refugees are forming a liberation army. While any such force is unlikely to pose a threat to Iraq's occupying army, Saddam may face a challenge from within his own ranks. Many refugees tell of encounters with Iraqi soldiers who expressed embarrassment about their invasion and begged Kuwaitis to forgive them. "Some said they thought they were being sent to ) fight against Israel," says Youssef, a refugee in Saudi Arabia. An escaped Bedouin woman says, "The soldiers told us they were afraid that their families would be killed in Iraq if they refused to fight." If troop morale...
...Saddam moves quickly to seal all escape outlets, Kuwaitis and the remaining foreigners, who include some 2,500 Americans, will be in for tougher times. Baghdad Radio has warned Kuwaiti citizens that they will face "the severest of punishments" if they provide Westerners with shelter. Meanwhile, Saddam is filling Kuwait with thousands of Iraqis, who arrive in trucks with all their belongings and orders to take up residence in abandoned apartments. "By the time Saddam has finished," says a refugee in Saudi Arabia, "the population will be completely different." And Kuwait may well be a place no Kuwaiti would want...