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Dhahran (därän`, dä'hərän`), city (1993 pop. 73,691), NE Saudi Arabia, near the Persian Gulf. Since the discovery (1938) of oil nearby, it has grown rapidly into a modern city. In Dhahran are the headquarters of the Arabian American Oil Co. (ARAMCO), the office of the Saudi petroleum ministry, and the Univ. of Petroleum and Minerals. During the Persian Gulf War First Persian Gulf War, Jan.–Feb., 1991, was an armed conflict between Iraq and a coalition of 32 nations including the United States, Britain, Egypt, France, and Saudi Arabia. It was a result of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on Aug. ..... Click the link for more information. the city's air base, the largest in Saudi Arabia, was used by coalition forces, and the area was subjected to Iraqi missile attacks. In 1996 a truck bomb at the Saudi base, which also housed foreign military personnel, killed 19 Americans and wounded more than 400 people. Dhahran a town in E Saudi Arabia: site of the original discovery of oil in the country (1938) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Expatriate is a 340-page novel by Bud Rudesill in which he draws upon his own experiences as a geology technician, instructor, and research assistant in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (as well as his wife's experiences in Khamis Mushayt and Riyadh as a nurse) to tell the fictional story of Cullen Mackenzie, the son of a geologist who grew up in Saudi Arabia during the 1950s and eventually returned to the U. David Mitchell, commander, of the 831st detachment in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Americans who investigated the truck-bomb attack in 1996 on the Khobar Towers housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in which 19 American servicemen were killed, have complained about Saudi reluctance to share intelligence information. |
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