I found that the elders, the original immigrants, carefully proclaimed loyalty to the British and tried to see both sides of the Kuwaiti issue. But their sons backed Hussein fully and felt that, if American and British troops acted anywhere, they should take Kashmir from India and give it to Pakistan. Mostly, they protested the presence of coalition troops in Saudi Arabia, which they saw as a desecration of sacred soil. It was an attitude shared, as we know now, by Osama bin Laden.