But few, if any, of these supporters have visited the Mujahedeen's desert encampments in Iraq and know how truly bizarre this revolutionary group is.

Such were the questions being raised by the answers discovered on this desert encampment.

In the grand panoply of the Persian Gulf war, it is easy to overlook the small desert encampment of 200 Czechoslovak soldiers in northern Saudi Arabia.

As the other horses rear and prance along the starting line in a roiling desert encampment, up come the stallion and Neera.

When Sgt. Richard R. Barrett began one verse, several men joined in, their voices drifting across the desert encampment.

Nothing distinguishes the complex of trailers parked at the edge of the desert encampment here south of the Iraqi border.

Protected by radar-guided anti-aircraft cannon, hundreds of their camouflaged desert encampments nestle behind man-made hillocks 20 miles from the Kuwaiti border, Saudi commanders report.

As the two men strolled around the desert encampment, a cool wind began to gust, billowing through the Caliph's long robes.

Troops, ferried in passenger buses, disembarked at camouflaged desert encampments that include dug-in positions.

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