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To: ewing
My memory is slipping. Did we do a similar evacuation of U.S. embassies in the ME before Desert Storm in 1991?
10 posted on 01/15/2003 3:36:46 PM PST by xJones
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To: xJones
Los Angeles Times
December 20, 1990

The State Department today added Sudan and Jordan to a list of six other Middle East and African countries where Americans connected to U.S. embassies are being ordered home or permitted to return voluntarily as a result of "unstable conditions" related to the Persian Gulf.

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The decisions concerning the six other countries had been announced earlier. Those countries are Yemen, Mauritania, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia's Eastern province.

31 posted on 01/15/2003 9:30:07 PM PST by Nick Danger (Beware the second-hand smoking gun)
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