Shortly afterward, they crossed the Saudi border into exile.

No one reached by telephone had any reports of Westerners crossing the Saudi border.

Many were coming across the Syrian and Saudi borders, he said, and some from Iran.

An additional Iraqi column crossed the Saudi border to the East, although still along the coast, towards the city of Khafji.

Finally, Salwa Road runs through south Doha and connects the city to the Saudi border to the south of the country.

He said he had been shot by his own officers when he refused to walk to Iraq from the Saudi border the previous week.

"How quick could that corps move to the Saudi border?"

Iraq sent helicopters to the Saudi border to pick up religious pilgrims today in defiance of American warnings.

They are believed to have entered Kuwait near the point where the Iraqi, Kuwaiti and Saudi borders meet.

They are close enough to the Saudi border to indicate cause for concern.