[DOC] [TLE] Arafat's costly Gulf War choice - Al Jazeera English [PAR] Aug 22, 2009 ... Many Palestinians sided with Iraq during Baghdad's invasion of Kuwait [EPA] ... 
On August 10, 20 Arab League countries at an emergency summit in Cairo ... In 
March, Gerald Bull, a Canadian scientist working on Baghdad's Babylon ... In 
some circles, Saddam was seen as a hero of the Palestinian cause. [DOC] [TLE] Aftermath of the Gulf War - Wikipedia [PAR] The aftermath of Gulf War saw drastic political, cultural, and social change across 
the Middle ... Kuwaitis said that Palestinians leaving the country could move to 
Jordan, ... apology of Mahmud Abbas on PLO support of the Iraqi invasion in 
1991. ... disagreement about the causes of the illness and the reported birth 
defects. [DOC] [TLE] Yasser Arafat - Wikipedia [PAR] Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa popularly 
known as Yasser ... Arafat and his movement operated from several Arab 
countries. ... During the 1948 ArabIsraeli War, Arafat left the University and, 
along with other .... Palestinians working in Kuwait and other Arab states of the 
Persian Gulf, such... [DOC] [TLE] Battle of Karameh - Wikipedia [PAR] The Battle of Karameh (Arabic:      ) was a 15-hour military 
engagement between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and combined forces of 
the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Jordanian Armed Forces (
JAF) in the Jordanian town of Karameh on 21 March 1968, during the War of 
Attrition. ... Though the Israeli invasion, whose purpose was to destroy the 
Palestinian... [DOC] [TLE] Saudi ArabiaUnited States relations - Wikipedia [PAR] Bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States 
began in 1933 ... Since World War II, the two countries have been allied in 
opposition to ... US-led invasion of Iraq (which Saudi Arabia opposed), aspects of 
the "War on .... CASOC was later renamed the Arabian-American Oil Company (
Aramco). [DOC] [TLE] ISR issue 15 | U.S. Intervention in the Middle East: Blood for Oil [PAR] SINCE THE Second World War, the United States has been the dominant ... 
regimes--Iran under the Shah, Saudi Arabia, Israel--to do its dirty work. ... Britain 
gave Ibn Saud Saudi Arabia--the only country in the world named after its ruling 
family. ... popular support, nationalized the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil 
Company. [DOC] [TLE] Kuwait Expels Thousands of Palestinians :: Middle East Quarterly ... [PAR] As early as the mid-1950s, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Libya. ... and after the 2003 
Iraq war, some 21,000 Palestinians fled the country in response to a ... at 700,000
),[2] driving PLO chairman Yasser Arafat to declare that "what Kuwait did to the ... 
By August 2, 1990, the day Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the population had
... [DOC] [TLE] Gulf War [PAR] The Persian Gulf War (August 2, 1990  February 28, 1991), commonly ... The 
invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi troops that began 2 August 1990 was met with .... [30] 
Yasser Arafat of the PLO expressed that neither he nor Hussein insisted that .... 
Iraq's aggression, consisting of forces from 34 countries: Argentina, ...... of 
Engineers... [DOC] [TLE] Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, dies at 75 in 2004 - NY Daily News [PAR] Nov 11, 2015 ... A mysterious blood ailment ended Yasser Arafat's run. ... and took up the gun - to 
push the Palestinian cause onto the world stage. ... Arafat, then an engineering 
student in Egypt, burned his books and raced back to fight. ... Then Iraq invaded 
Kuwait, sparking the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and Arafat made... [DOC] [TLE] Yasser Arafat | Palestinian leader | Britannica.com [PAR] In 1949 Arafat began his studies in civil engineering at Cairo's King Fud ... at 
the Suez Canal in the early 1950s, although these claimsalong with other facts 
... to Kuwait, where he worked as an engineer and set up his own contracting firm
. .... following the Persian Gulf War, the Madrid Conferencea

Question: In the '50s Arafat worked in an engineering firm in this country, the invasion of which triggered the Gulf War
Answer: Kuwait