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- At that point, a lot of soldiers had been in Kuwait since mid-November, and the rumor mill was in full swing.† (source)
- So when we got the word that we were shipping out to Kuwait, we were excited.† (source)
- Astern of us lay the fevered cauldrons of loathing in Iraq and nearby Kuwait, places where I had previously served.† (source)
- The prince of Kuwait attended the race and celebrated him at an honorary dinner in Naples.† (source)
- Two years later, when a McDonald's opened in Kuwait, the line of cars waiting at the drive-through window extended for seven miles.† (source)
- In Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the United States had routed the forces of Saddam Hussein in Kuwait.† (source)
- Kuwait lost five to six million barrels of oil each day.† (source)
- The sheikhs come from Kuwait and Saudi with suitcases of rupees.† (source)
- In August 1990, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait shifted my priorities.† (source)
- As the helicopter took off to take us back to Kuwait three days later, I realized that even though each of my teammates on Team Five had different amounts of time and experience in the SEAL teams, we were all still very new to this, and this raid was a first for everyone.† (source)
- After graduating from the University of Baghdad with a degree in engineering, he had worked in Iraq, Jordan, Libya, and Kuwait before finally settling in France, where he met a Palestinian woman, originally from Nablus, who worked part-time as a translator for a UN refugee agency and a small French publishing house.† (source)
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- They had just brought Kuwaiti oil to Japan, and were returning to Kuwait for more.† (source)
- Finally, we were relieved by another set of SEALS and headed back to Kuwait.† (source)
- He was back in Kuwait and had seen something on television that was negative about the troops.† (source)
- I WAS IN KUWAIT WHEN I SAW MY FIRST DESERT sandstorm.† (source)
- We were constantly digging them out of the sand in Kuwait.† (source)
- I just immediately went right back to Kuwait.† (source)
- I CAUGHT A MILITARY CHARTER, FIRST TO KUWAIT, then to the States.† (source)
- NASIRIYA IS A CITY ON THE EUPHRATES RIVER IN southern Iraq, about 125 miles northwest of Kuwait.† (source)
- WE STAYED AT TWO DIFFERENT CAMPS IN KUWAIT: Ali al-Salem and Doha.† (source)
- We spent a few days hanging around our camp back in Kuwait, waiting for an assignment.† (source)
- The UN gave Iraq an ultimatum to leave Kuwait by January 15, 1991, or be forcefully removed.† (source)
- Sand mixed with oil created "tarcrete," covering 5 percent of Kuwait.† (source)
- Later, Saddam's troops set fire to over six hundred of Kuwait's oil wells.† (source)
- I had first arrived there to join Team 5 back on April 14, 2003, coming into the U.S. air base fifteen minutes out of Baghdad with twelve other SEALs from Kuwait in an aircraft just like this C-130.† (source)
- On my last night in Kuwait, I wrote letters to those I loved, in case I didn't make it: one to my father and one to Savannah.† (source)
- We'd long ago learned to listen to rumors with a grain of salt, but this time the rumors were accurate, and my squad and others were sent to Kuwait to start all over.† (source)
- And as we crossed that coastline heading out toward the open ocean, it really was good-bye, from me at least, to the Arabian Peninsula and the seething Islamic states at the north end of the gulf, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, and Iran, that had dominated my life and thoughts for the past couple of years.† (source)
- Command sent word that we would be pulled out and returned to Kuwait in "the same expedient fashion you were brought in."† (source)
- We laugh about it now—but for those few seconds I was truly scared, more scared even than I had been in Kuwait when the Scuds actually did fly over.† (source)
- You MIGHT THINK IT'D BE TOUGH TO GET INTO A drunken brawl in Kuwait, since there really aren't any bars where you can drink alcohol.† (source)
- In any event, the Scuds were released and went on to Yemen, Saddam stayed in Iraq, and we went back to Kuwait to get ready for war.† (source)
- GEARED UP AND STRAPPED IN, I SAT VIBRATING in the gunner's chair of the DPV shortly after nightfall March 20, 2003, as an Air Force MH-53 lifted off the runway in Kuwait.† (source)
- WITH WAR BECOMING INEVITABLE, WE BEGAN patrolling the border across Kuwait, making sure that the Iraqis weren't going to try and sneak across in a preemptory strike.† (source)
- In January 2003, right after he turned twenty-three, he deployed to Kuwait as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.† (source)
- They were bringing the brightest madrassa students back to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for a decade of indoctrination, then encouraging them to take four wives when they came home and breed like rabbits.† (source)
- Camp Doha, in an industrial part of Kuwait City, had been in use since the First Gulf War and was pretty much a town unto itself.† (source)
- And of those insufficient funds, he said that $680 million had been 'redirected,' to build runways and bulk up supply depots in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar for the invasion of Iraq everyone expected would soon begin.† (source)
- Though she had been scared when he was posted to Kuwait and, later, Iraq, she couldn't help but believe that he was going to make it.† (source)
- He started with the poker games in Kuwait, then moved on to the RPG that knocked him unconscious and the firelight in Fallujah.† (source)
- In short, no one knew anything, which only fueled the imaginations of the 150,000 troops who'd assembled in Kuwait.† (source)
- With Iraq's economy failing, President Saddam Hussein blamed Kuwait, invading the country on August 2, 1990, and taking Western hostages.† (source)
- On a side note, although the SEALs had specifically rehearsed to protect the oil wells in Kuwait, Schwarzkopf didn't use us.† (source)
- I found the photo in Kuwait, and I posted it on a bulletin board where I thought it would be claimed.† (source)
- Everyone remembered that Saddam Hussein had set most of the wells in Kuwait on fire as he'd retreated in the First Gulf War, and no one wanted the same thing to happen again.† (source)
- He explained, "The Palestine Liberation Organization voiced support for Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.† (source)
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