101.   President Bill Clinton praised the UN resolution demanding Iraq pull its troops from the Kuwaiti border Sunday and warned Baghdad against threatening its neighbors in the future.

102.   She declined to say whether the US would make a preemptive strike against Iraq but she said that crossing the Kuwaiti border will draw a forceful response.

103.   Tehran is also apprehensive about the heavy presence of US forces in the Gulf, deployed recently in response to a build-up of Iraqi troops near the Kuwaiti border.

104.   The announcement followed US reports of major Iraqi troop movements towards the Kuwaiti border.

105.   Tension has been high in the Gulf since Iraq deployed thousands of troops in early October near the Kuwaiti border.

106.   The British defence ministry decided to send the ship to the Gulf following reports that thousands of Iraqi troops were heading towards the Kuwaiti border.

107.   The defence ministry called up reservist soldiers on Friday following US reports of Iraqi troop movements toward the Kuwaiti border.

108.   The Council late Saturday passed a resolution barring Baghdad from deploying Republican Guard units in southern Iraq and from reinforcing its military capacity on the Kuwaiti border.

109.   The four were carrying two hunting rifles and a shotgun when they were arrested by Kuwaiti border police inside the zone, a ministry statement said.

110.   The Iraqi warning followed US reports of Iraqi troop movements toward the Kuwaiti border.