“Beginning in February 1990, strong words began to fly from Iraq to Kuwait City [Kuwait] and Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], with a cash-desperate Saddam Hussein demanding that the Kuwaitis and Saudis forgive the $40 billion in loans given to him to fight [Ayatollah] Khomeini and the Iranians. …the Kuwaiti and Saudi governments rejected his request and Saddam became aggressive, demanding an additional $30 billion in interest-free loans [saying, at the Arab Cooperation Council meeting that month]: ‘Let the Gulf regimes know, that if they do not give this money to me, I know how to get it.’ That’s when the Iraqi dictator put his huge army on the move, positioning 100,000 trained soldiers on the Kuwaiti border. When questioned, he claimed that his army was conducting training exercises.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, Growing Up Bin Laden, Pages 79-80