Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (Sarahcuda) engages in some trigger happy rifle training during a 2007 visit to Kuwait. A Vice President with a gun? What could go wrong?

The Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez is widely considered to be one of the four 'greats' of Arabic music. This is a traditional Khaliji song from the Arabian Gulf which he recorded in Kuwait in the 1960s.

Radiohead's "Like Spining Plates" from Amnesiac with footage from Werner Herzog's documentary "Lessons in Darkness".

Lessons of Darkness is a 1992 film by German director Werner Herzog. Herzog perceives the desert as a landscape with its own voice. Virtually devoid of commentary, the imagery concentrates on the aftermath... more inside

Bahrain, a tiny gulf island, normally keeps a low profile in the international news. Meanwhile, internal sectarian tensions are building. Shias make up 70 per cent of the population, but they are ruled... more inside

1946- U.S. opens School of the Americas in Panama. Now located in Fort Benning, Georgia, the "School of the Assassins" has taught over 60,000 personnel from some of the world's most brutal regimes how... more inside

After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the United Nations (backed strongly by the US and UK) imposed harsh sanctions on Iraq that lasted for 10 ... all » years (1991-2001); the harsh restrictions on imports... more inside