1.   The U.S. troops would be part of a multinational force.

2.   ...a multinational force aimed at ensuring that food and medicine get to needy Somalis.

3.   Financial assistance to the multinational force was seen in this light.

4.   US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney announces US decision to send ground units and combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia, as part of a multinational force.

5.   The UK announces that it will send air and naval forces to join what becomes known as the multinational force.

6.   Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which had supplied the main Arab components of the multinational anti-Iraqi forces congregated in the Saudi desert, both issued denunciations of the killings.

7.   On the Gulf crisis, Baker urged the deployment of a token Soviet military contingent as part of the multinational force.

8.   Portugal also provided humanitarian and logistical support for the multinational force.

9.   In return the BRA undertook to surrender its weapons and prisoners to a multinational peacekeeping force drawn from other Pacific countries.

10.   GCC troops subsequently joined the United States-led multinational forces opposing Iraq.