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Iraqi soldiers were sure that U.S. Marines would storm the beach in Kuwait City. We encouraged that belief. They practiced with their Russian-built 13mm machine guns. The Americans, meanwhile, came up from behind. Ha.

I had to hang out the hotel window to make this picture. It was worth it, I think.

The shore of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait City.

The beach is attractive, but beachgoing is not the passion there that it is in the states. This may be due to the fact that even the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf are infested with sharks. Seabirds are plentiful, and the beach is a great place for a walk.

In the background is a once-opulent cruise ship that had been ravaged by Saddam's soldiers.

I like the other picture, with the strolling couple, better. But I waded into the shark-infested Persian Gulf to make this picture, and I'm damned well going to use it! Kuwait Towers are the landmark of that city, the way the World Trade Center . . . never mind.

My friend Jeff Young took it. I'm in an Iraqi bunker near Kuwait City. Saddam's army booby trapped some of these on the way out, but this one was safe, or I was too booby even for them.