1.   Mubarak also announced that Saddam had assured him that Iraq had no intention of attacking Kuwait or of moving forces towards the Kuwaiti border.

2.   Intelligence reports from the United States and Britain showed an almost impregnable defensive line along the Kuwaiti border.

3.   But by his latest adventure -- sending troops to the Kuwaiti border -- Saddam Hussein has shown the West his own desperation and its opportunity.

4.   But Hoffman, a financial analyst from Columbus, has had a front-row seat to the recent Iraqi troop movements toward the Kuwaiti border.

5.   By foolishly conducting threatening military maneuvers near the Kuwaiti border, Baghdad has set back its cause among friend and foe alike.

6.   Crude oil prices fell sharply after Iraq said it would retreat from the Kuwaiti border.

7.   --Condemning the recent troop deployment by Iraq near the Kuwaiti border.

8.   Even the recent Iraqi movement of troops to the Kuwaiti border failed to sway the Saudis.

9.   Iraq began withdrawing its troops from the Kuwaiti border on Tuesday and said the redeployments were completed two days later.

10.   Iraq provoked a swift U.S. military mobilization last October after Saddam moved thousands of his elite Republican Guard troops toward the Kuwaiti border.