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KUWAIT
Strategic significance:
Ground zero of the Gulf War, potential staging ground for invading southern Iraq
In the 1991 Gulf War they:
Were liberated from Iraq by the U.S.-led coalition
Now they:
Oppose a new war, seek a diplomatic solution but will support a UN-authorized attack
Their interest in Iraq:
Ousting a hostile regime, but only if that doesn't prompt new instability
Domestic concerns:
Recent actions by al-Qaeda sympathizers in Kuwait raise fears of a backlash in the event of an invasion
Price for backing the U.S.:
Quick and decisive victory, leaving behind a stable, Sunni-dominated political order; renewed U.S. peacemaking between Israel and the Palestinians
A Kuwaiti viewpoint: www.kuwaittimes.net/today/
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