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Kuwait: Security, Reform, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Kuwait: Security, Reform, and U.S. Policy

This report provides a brief overview on the current political state of Kuwait, which has been pivotal to nearly two decades of U.S. involvement in Iraq and the Middle East. This report also discusses relations between Kuwait and the U.S., and the continuing domestic unrest in Kuwait, an issue separate from the unrest currently sweeping the rest of the Middle East.
Date: February 8, 2012
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Arab Gunmen] (open access)

[News Script: Arab Gunmen]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of five Arab gunmen holding four hostages abroad a Syrian aircrafts at Kuwait Airport have surrendered.
Date: September 8, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Gunmen] (open access)

[News Script: Gunmen]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of five Arab gunmen who are holding four hostages abroad a Syrian aircrafts surrendered to authorities in Kuwait ending a four-day drama that stretched from Paris to the Middle East.
Date: September 8, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kuwait: Security, Reform, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Kuwait: Security, Reform, and U.S. Policy

This report looks at Kuwait's relationships with its neighbors in the Persian Gulf, and its own political system which has been in turmoil since 2006.
Date: February 8, 2011
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Kuwait] (open access)

[News Script: Kuwait]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the seven masked gunmen in Kuwait who have released their 12 hostages, left the Japanese Embassy and went under police escort to a waiting plane.
Date: February 8, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Oil] (open access)

[News Script: Oil]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an Egyptian official who says that the Arab oil countries have not agreed yet on where and when their oil ministers will meet to consider lifting the Embargo against the U. S.
Date: March 8, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Terrorists] (open access)

[News Script: Terrorists]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of South Yemen who announced that it will give landing permission to a Japanese airliner carrying terrorists from Singapore and Kuwait.
Date: February 8, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kuwait: Security, Reform, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Kuwait: Security, Reform, and U.S. Policy

Kuwait, which has been pivotal to nearly two decades of U.S. involvement in Iraq, has advanced its democratic development since the fall of Saddam Hussein. However, it remains mired in internal wrangling over economic issues and the political dominance of the ruling family, and it is showing signs of Sunni-Shiite tensions previously absent. This report, prepared with the assistance of Kim Klarman, will be updated.
Date: July 8, 2008
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library