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Monday, March 4, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
The Persian Gulf: After the War
Kuwaitis looking for news on captured, killed citizens
The Associated Press
KUWAIT CITY — From the rubble-filled streets of downtown to the living rooms of luxurious suburban homes, one Kuwaiti after another tells an eerily similar story: The Iraqis kidnapped my relatives.
Kuwaitis celebrating the end of Iraq occupation say their joy is tempered by the disappearance of thousands of their compatriots, many of whom taken in by the United States in U.S.-led forces liberated the country.
Iraq agreed to allied demands yesterday that it return civilian detainees and military prisoners of war. But many Kuwaitis, having witnessed and heard about countless acts of savagery by Iraqi troops, fear the worst for those missing.
Without solid information, rumors sprout and spread like weeds: The allies rescued the abducted and have taken them to Saudi Arabia. The Iraqi shot the captives before fleeing. The Kuwaitis were transported to Iraq prison camps in Rabadh and Basra.
None of those reports has been confirmed.
"The Iraqis went crazy the last few days before they fled," said Saad Al-Hashim, dean of education at Kuwait University. "They visited mosques, from their houses, from
cars. everywhere."
The assistant dean of the education department was among those abducted, said Al-Hashim, adding that he too was a target, not because he too was a position, but because he had a mini-van needed to transport detainees.
He said he was able to talk his way out of capture by telling the soldiers that the electric gate to his driveway would not open because of a power cut or capital. He did not mention that the gate could be opened manually.
Abdul Rahman Al-Awadi, the minister of state for Cabinet affairs, said Saturday that more than 8,000 Kuwaits had been hauled away between Feb. 21 and Feb. 23. 25,000 others were either killed or are missing after Iraq's seven months of occupation, he added.
However, he indicated that the figures were preliminary. Checks by journalists at hospitals, morgues and in interviews with Kuwaiti citizens suggested that the death toll was probably high and that no one had reliable figures on how many people had been abducted.
But if the abductees reached Iraq, there is a good chance they are alive and are not being tortured, according to Kuwaitis allowed to visit captured relatives in Iraq in recent months.
The Iraqis began abducting Kuwaiti immediately after they invaded on Aug. 2, citizens said. Initially, the Iraqis appeared to target people who had been in the government or the security forces.
Hani Shushtar said his brother, an army major, was detained Aug. 3 and taken to a camp outside Baghdad. Shushtar, a flight attendant with Kuwait Airways, flew several times to Iraq and visited his brother, who appeared to be in decent condition.
However, several other people told of relatives who had been tortured while they were detained inside Kuwait.
At the Al-Sabah Hospital, Hisham Al-Nisef showed visitors the corpse of young Kuwaiti men who had been tortured before they were killed.
Families of the missing Kuwaitis have been visiting the hospital, praying they would not find their loved ones in the morgue, said the doctor. With most of the dead bodies now claimed, the relatives of the missing have stopped coming and have begun to hope that a family reunion is near.
Iraqi troops flee Kuwait after pullout The Associated Press
"We could not move outside our bunkers because they kept hitting us around the clock," said one man who recently returned.
BAGHADD, Iraq — Thousands of Iraqi soldiers have begun pouring back into Baghdad following the shattering ground war in the south. Some tell stories of terror in the weeks of ceaseless allied bombardments.
U. S. military sources in Saudi Arabia said Saturday that surveillance photos showed the sudden pullout had plunged the southern city of Basra into chaos.
U. S. military officials said many Iraqi units offered little or no resistance, either surrendering or fleeing north.
Those who stayed found themselves pounded, even after they were ordered to withdraw from Kuwait in the midst of ground fighting — a fact that angered some.
"Even the cars, the bases which were taking back back were hit," said Zaid Taleb, a soldier in civilian clothes visiting a marketplace near Baghdad over the weekend.
PLO writhes under Arafat's support for Iraq
Analysis
Bv Mona Ziade
Associated Press Writer
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Hard time lies ahead for the Palestine Liberation Organization and its chairperson, Yasser Arafat, who supported Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf War.
The PLO's relations with most Arab leaders now are soured by hostility and distrust, and the movement itself has been shaken.
The Iraqi leader has been crushed and his survival is uncertain. The oil-rich Gulf Arab states have stopped the flow of money for the Palestinian
But, with the war over, Western and Arab leaders agree the time is
ripe for a new drive to settle the Palestinian problem, the root of conflict in the Middle East for more than four decades.
"All efforts should now be deployed with the view of resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict with the same rapidity as that which settled the gulf crisis, on the basis of international legality," declared Yasser Abed-Rabba, a member of the PLO's ruling Executive Committee in Tunis.
Achieving an Arab-Iraeli peace will be the main test for the "new world order" President Bush wants to establish.
That in itself is a political victory for the PLO, which for 23 years has warned there can be no peace in the Middle East. The Palestinian issue is resolved.
But the position of Israel's right-wing government has been hardened
by the war, and Arafat's backing of Saddam as the only Arab leader prepared to stand up to Israel has eroded support for peace negotiations among some moderates in the Jewish state.
In addition, there are differences among the allies concerning how to tackle the Arab-Israeli dispute. The United States broke off a dialogue with the PLO last May and shows no willingness to resume it.
But France's foreign minister, Roland Dumas, declared Thursday that the PLO was the only organization that the world's million Palestinians
Now the gulf states are cutting off their financial support of the PLO. Before Arafat gambled on Saddam, the PLO was getting some $43 million a month from the gulf states, much of which bankrolled the 3-year-old Pal-
estianian uprisings in Israel-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The deportation by the gulf states of many of the two million Palestinians who worked there has cut off another $8 million to $10 million a month in remittances.
Arafat years ago shrewdly made contingency plans for just such an emergency by investing an estimated $2 billion in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. But he still had to slash the PLO's annual $300 million budget by 35 percent.
Backing Saddam has left Arafat himself in a precarious position. Saudi Arabia, once the PLO's main donor, and other gulf states are not likely to forgive what they see as Arafat's betrayal until he is ousted.
The 15-member U.N. Security Council has adopted
13 resolutions since Iraq invaded Kuwait Aug. 2;
U.N. resolutions against Iraq
Resolution 660, Aug. 2
Condemned Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and demanded that Baghdad withdraw its forces. The vote was 14-0, with Yemen not participating.
Resolution 661, Aug. 6
Imposed stringent sanctions on all trade to and from Iraq except for medicine and, in humanitarian circumstances, foodstuffs. The vote
Resolution 662, Aug. 9
Unanimously declared Iraq's annexation of Kuwait null and void.
Resolution 664, Aug.18
Resolution 665, Aug.25
Unanimously demanded Iraq allow foreign nationals to leave Iraq and Kuwait and rescind its order to close diplomatic missions in Kuwait.
Resolution 666, Sept.13
Permitted states to use limited naval force to ensure compliance with the economic sanctions, including the right to inspect cargos. The vote was 13-0, with Cuba and Yemen abstaining.
Approved food shipments to Iraq and Kuwait for humanitarian purposes, but only if distributed by approved international groups. The vote was 13-2, with Cuba and Yemen opposed.
Resolution 667, Sept. 16
Resolution 669, Sept.24
Unanimously condemned raids by Iraqi troops on French and other
dynamic questions in occupied Kuwait.
Unanimously adopted a procedural measure entrusting its sanctions committee to evaluate requests for assistance from countries in the region.
Resolution 670, Sept.25
Promoted an franc with Iraq and occupied Jerusalem, a humanitarian circumstances. The vote was 14-1, with Cuba opposed.
Resolution 674, Oct. 29
Asked states to document financial losses and human rights violations resulting from the invasion. The vote was 13-0, with Cuba and Yemen abstaining.
Resolution 677, Nov.28
Resolution 678, Nov. 29
Unanimously asked the U.N. secretary-general to safeguard a smoothed copy of Kuwait's pre-invasion population register.
Authorized states "to use all necessary means" against Iraq unless it withdrew from Turkey on or before Jan. 15. The vote was 12-2. China
Resolution 686, Mar. 2
Sets terms for permanent cease-fire, including: Iraq must return all prisoners of war, abducted Kuwait civilians and plundered property, accept liability for war damages; and disclose locations of mine fields and booby traps. Vote was 11-1. Cuba voted against and China, Yemen and India abstained.
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