| May 20, 2007 | -
Kuwait stopped pegging the dinar exclusively to the dollar, raising doubts that a Gulf currency union will take place by 2010.
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FT via Yahoo! News
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| January 15, 2006 | - Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, 78, the ruler of Kuwait, died. Sheikh Saad al-Abdulla al-Sabah, 76, was named to replace him.
| Source:
Al-Jazeera
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| November 12, 2005 | -
Kuwait’s largest oil field began to run out of oil.
| Source:
AMEInfo.com
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| November 11, 2005 | -
Bird flu arrived in Kuwait.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 9, 2005 | - In Iraq, a gunman opened fire on a minibus filled with people working for a Kuwaiti company, killing one and wounding three, and a garbage-truck suicide bomb killed three people and injured more than twenty.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 12, 2004 | - Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian leader who had vowed to campaign from prison to succeed Yasir Arafat in the January election, withdrew his candidacy and endorsed Mahmoud Abbas, now the clear frontrunner in the race who last week apologized to Kuwait for Palestinian support of the 1990 invasion by Saddam Hussein.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 1, 2004 | -
Kuwait banned Fahrenheit 9/11, and
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| December 17, 2003 | - In that interview, the president said that he saw no difference between his earlier claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and the more recent emphasis on weapons programs. "So what's the difference? If he were to acquire weapons, he would be the danger," Bush said. "I'm telling you — I made the right decision for America because Saddam Hussein used weapons of mass destruction, invaded Kuwait. But the fact that he is not there is, means America's a more secure country."
| Source:
Guardian
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| February 25, 2003 | -
U.S. Marines, in what has been called Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken, are planning to use “Poultry Chemical Confirmation Devices” as part of an early-warning system against chemical weapons; the devices, which consist of chickens in cages, will be installed on top of the Marines' Humvees before they roar off into battle.
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| November 20, 2001 | -
Iraq fired a mortar shell at Kuwait.
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| March 20, 2001 | - An American navy fighter jet dropped a 500-pound bomb on American troops in Kuwait, killing six.
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| February 27, 2001 | - Former president George Bush was in Kuwait for the tenth anniversary of the Gulf War.
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| August 8, 2000 | - It was the tenth anniversary of Iraq's
invasion of Kuwait; Alaa Hussein Ali, who led Kuwait's puppet government during the occupation, filed suit against Saddam Hussein for compelling him to collaborate with Iraqi forces.
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