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Why Are We There?

The Air Force unit attacked in Dhahran was there as part of the unfinished business of the Gulf War. But the attack is not expected to generate any change in US policy in the Gulf area, or threaten US relations with Saudi Arabia. NPR's Ted Clark has a report.

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