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Persian Gulf
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    They dispatched National Guard and Army troops, who turned their guns against Americans — barely more than a year after the bloody (for the Iraqi people) Persian Gulf War.†  (source)
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    From there we would be smuggled by speedboat across the Persian Gulf to one of the Arab emirates.†  (source)
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    And in the lead-up to war during the winter of 2002-03, that meant the Persian Gulf off Iraq.†  (source)
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    Aboard a ship called the Star Castor he saw the Persian Gulf, Japan, Australia, and Baltimore.†  (source)
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    He answered on the seventh ring, said he thought Dylar was an island in the Persian Gulf, one of those oil terminals crucial to the survival of the West.†  (source)
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    They had become merchant bankers in an unofficial way, staking small prospecting companies, staking trading ventures to India and Arabia and the Persian Gulf (still in the Arab dhows of the postage stamp).†  (source)
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    But not to speak of the passage through the whole length of the Mediterranean, and another passage up the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, such a supposition would involve the complete circumnavigation of all Africa in three days, not to speak of the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any whale to swim in.†  (source)
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    Blue Team's sixteen lost ships, which were lying at the bottom of the Persian Gulf, were refloated.†  (source)
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    The C-130 roared on, heading slightly more northerly now, up toward the coast of Baluchistan, which stretches 470 miles along the northern shoreline of the Arabian Sea and commands, strategically, the inward and outward oil lanes to the Persian Gulf.†  (source)
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    Setting its course to the north—northwest, the ship headed toward the Gulf of Oman, carved out between Arabia and the Indian peninsula and providing access to the Persian Gulf.†  (source)
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    'The coral fishery gives employment to many men in the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean Sea, and other places.†  (source)
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    With favoring winds it is wafted past the site of the fabulous islands of Atlantis and the Hesperides, makes the periplus of Hanno, and, floating by Ternate and Tidore and the mouth of the Persian Gulf, melts in the tropic gales of the Indian seas, and is landed in ports of which Alexander only heard the names.†  (source)
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    And Edward would not promise not to do it again, though, fortunately, they struck a streak of cooler weather when they were in the Persian Gulf.†  (source)
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