... securities are suitable for individual investors and popular with other countries, especially China, Japan and the Persian Gulf oil exporters, the three top foreign holders of U.S. debt. But as the U.S. spends trillions to stabilize the ...

... Central's "The Colbert Report," but because the military urged caution, he has only trumpeted a vague trip to "the Persian Gulf." The series of shows, each to be taped in front of an audience of about 450 troops, have been dubbed "Operation ...

... said Multi-National Division Center, which is responsible for the area just south of Baghdad will expand down to the Persian Gulf and the Kuwait border. Basra is at the heart of the country's vital oil industry. Odierno said he expects the transition ...

... would result in us being able to tell the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to take a flying leap into the Persian Gulf in a few years. We absolutely must craft enticements and incentives to generate and remove roadblocks from emerging ...

... thousands of polling sites in schools, offices and civic centers stretching from the foothills in the far north to the Persian Gulf in the south. In many places, women teachers and other civilians were recruited to help search for possible female ...

... called for more restraint. - Advertisement - Demonizing Saddam was a mistake Bush's father made too. During the Persian Gulf War, President George H.W. Bush referred to Saddam as "that lying son of a bitch" and called him "Hitler revisited ...

... Navy vessels a nuclear-powered submarine and an amphibious ship collided before dawn Friday in the mouth of the Persian Gulf, one of the world's most important sea passages for oil supplies. There was no damage to the sub's nuclear propulsion ...

... Osirak reactor just before it began producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. Ten years later, U.S. success in the Persian Gulf War led to the dismantling of Saddam Hussein's crash program to enrich uranium for an atomic bomb. Military force ...

... inflicted blow if it turns off the spigots and blocks Persian Gulf supply lines. Oil remains near historic heights. And ... choke off the Strait of Hormuz the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf that serves as the transit route for more than 30 million ...

... his harshest criticism for Iran, branding it "the world's leading state-sponsor of terror." Speaking in this Persian Gulf country, about 150 miles from the shores of Iran, Bush said Tehran threatens nations everywhere and that the United ...