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After Hussein’s incendiary speech, Iraq began amassing troops on the Kuwait border. Suddenly alarmed by these actions, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt decided to initiate negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait in order to avoid the United States from intervening as well as other powers that were outside the Gulf region. Hussein ended all negotiations after only two hours. Yet, on August 2, 1990 he ordered the invasion of Kuwait. This sudden act of aggression made Hussein believe that he and his fellow Arab leaders in those states he was allies with would stand by in the face of his invasion of Kuwait, and not call in outside help to stop it, proved to be a miscalculation. Two-thirds of the total 21 members of the Arab League condemned Iraq’s act of aggression as Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd along with Kuwait’s government-in-exile decided to turn to the United States and other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for help and much needed support. The Gulf War was now beginning and now many members of NATO got involved to stop Hussein from gaining too much power.