31.   For example, Bahrain provided bases for U.S. warships and aircraft during the Persian Gulf war.

32.   However, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev said Monday that his country does not plan to provide its bases to coalition troops.

33.   It is the second time Albania has provided a base for U.S. operations.

34.   It said Iraq was concentrating its terror on opponents of President Saddam Hussein but also providing bases for anti-Israel terror groups.

35.   It also quoted a China specialist, Rick Fisher, as saying the building could provide a base for covert monitoring of the Pentagon.

36.   Italy has no ground troops in Bosnia, but provides the bases for NATO operations in the war.

37.   Italy has provided bases for many of the NATO operations in the former Yugoslavia, but has not sent in troops on peacekeeping operations there.

38.   Its managing director for Asia-Pacific Sanjoy Bose said in a statement that the MSC will provide a base for Inventa to serve its Asian markets.

39.   Italy plays a major support role, providing bases for NATO aircraft and enforcing a sea embargo in the Adriatic on the former Yugoslavia.

40.   More recently, it provided military bases during the Persian Gulf War and send troops to the NATO peace force in Bosnia.