11.   In Kuwait, an Associated Press photographer spotted Patriot anti-missile batteries in the Kuwaiti desert and a U.S. Embassy spokesman confirmed that the Patriots had been deployed.

12.   In Kuwait, an Associated Press photographer spotted Patriot anti-missile batteries in the Kuwaiti desert, and a U.S. Embassy spokesman confirmed that the Patriots had been deployed.

13.   Kuwait also is hosting U.S. military maneuvers in the Kuwaiti desert.

14.   Not all GIs are enthusiastic about spending extra time in the Kuwaiti desert.

15.   The United States has deployed Patriot anti-missile units in the Kuwaiti desert as it prepares for possible military action against Iraq.

16.   Hundreds of US Marines and soldiers also continued to deploy in the Kuwaiti desert near the border with Iraq.

17.   In Kuwait, hundreds more US and British troops arrived and took part in live-fire exercises in the Kuwaiti desert.

18.   Clinton earlier told cheering soldiers in the northern Kuwaiti desert that Iraq would never again be allowed to threaten its neighbors.

19.   Clinton was visiting troops at the Tactical Assembly Area Liberty, the forwardmost position of US and coalition troops in the Kuwaiti desert.

20.   Earlier he told hundreds of cheering US troops deployed in the Kuwaiti desert that Iraq would never again be allowed to threaten its neighbours.