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Vet's recovery an inspiration
Christopher Semple watched as the bombers took off from the airfield in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was January 1990, and once the planes were in the air, the Air Force staff sergeant had no choice but to wait to find out if the bombs on those planes met...Tags: American Legion, International Military Interventions, History, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Korean War (1950-1953)
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History in the desert
TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERSLife, as Kierkegaard pointed out, can only be understood retrospectively, but we must live it prospectively. It's a disjunctive paradox, as true for the lives of nations as it is for those of individuals. Steve Coll's stunningly researched and grippingly...Tags: Likud, Al-Qaeda, History, Osama bin Laden, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Recent Terror Attacks by Al-Qaida
The Associated PressRecent major attacks attributed to the al-Qaida terror network: -- Oct. 7, 2004 and July 23, 2005: Attacks on three Sinai resorts in Egypt killed a total of 97 people. The October 2004 attack in Taba and Ras Shitan killed 34 people, including 11...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Abdullah Gul, Explosions, Hotels and Accommodations
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Islamic group calls Blair 'legitimate target'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs Prime Minister Tony Blair toured the Middle East, a London-based radical Islamic group called him "a legitimate target" for assassination because Britain has joined the U.S.-led military strikes against Afghanistan. The statement by the extremist Al...Tags: Punishment, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Security
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2 foreigners killed, 5 hurt in explosion outside shop
A remote control bomb went off outside a shop in the eastern Saudi city of Khobar on Saturday, police said. Saudi television reported two people were killed and five injured. All the casualties were non-Saudis, the television said. An American and a...Tags: Television, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Saudi Arabia, National Security, Entertainment
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Ally faces unwanted role in coalition
Washington BureauGeography and the incendiary politics of the Middle East are drawing Saudi Arabia into a role it does not relish: that of ally in a U.S. military campaign. With U.S. troops, planes and command facilities already on its soil, Saudi Arabia is positioned to...Tags: International Military Interventions, Osama bin Laden, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Taliban, Saddam Hussein
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Tiny Qatar has big role as U.S. eyes Iraq
Tribune staff reporterEvery so often an ear-shattering roar echoes from a cloudless sky, disrupting this tiny gulf nation's sleepy, sun-baked solitude. Glancing up, Qataris watch U.S. jet fighters and military transports zoom by. This is about all they know of U.S. military...Tags: Afghanistan, Armed Forces, Saudi Arabia, National Security, Diplomacy
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Window into history
Special to the TribuneFew spots where tourists go pique the imagination like the Arabia Steamboat Museum, a museum built (in 1991) to exhibit a short-lived vessel that carried a cargo fit for kings and that sank five years before the Civil War began. For more than a century,...Tags: History, Children, Trips and Vacations, St. Louis, Wars and Interventions
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Careful steps taken to set up attack
Washington BureauPressure to avoid killing civilians and the need to build an international coalition has led the Bush administration to bide its time before launching military strikes against suspected terrorist strongholds. As anticipation builds that U.S. military...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Taliban, Diplomacy
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Voyage delays key equipment for troops
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The war in Iraq is providing Pentagon officials with a biting reminder that the nation's most powerful tank divisions can't run to a fight - they have to sail to it, at speeds no faster than about 22 knots. At a time when Army leaders near...Tags: Fort Hood (military base), Baghdad (Iraq), Turkey, Kuwait, Armed Forces
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Invisible war on terror accelerates worldwide
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor all the focus on Afghanistan, the U.S.-led war on terrorism has quietly picked up pace worldwide, with increasing results even in problem areas ranging from Sudan in Africa and Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula to the Philippines in Southeast Asia,...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Indonesia, National Security
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Military expands ties in the gulf
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Amid strains in American ties with Saudi Arabia, the United States has significantly expanded its strategic relationship with the smaller emirates and monarchies of the oil-rich Persian Gulf, which could play a key role as bases for U.S....Tags: International Military Interventions, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Saddam Hussein
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