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...tried his luck in Baghdad, and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi convened his own Arab confab. Most significant, after weeks of ; petty dickering over when to get together, the U.S. and Iraq finally agreed to a high-level meeting in Geneva this week, their first since the confrontation erupted on Aug...
Among those who monitor atrocities for a living, a dispute is simmering. How many Kuwaitis have been summarily executed since Iraq's invasion on Aug. 2? How many have been tortured, how many arrested, how many raped? No one knows for sure, and few but Saddam's henchmen may ever know...
...action more palatable, but "it is the Americans we need," says a Kuwaiti official, "more for pretext than for security. Do you think the U.S. will want a potential Palestinian terrorist threat close to its troops? We don't." There were more than 300,000 Palestinians in Kuwait before Aug. 2. "If there are 100,000 left a year from the end of this, I will be surprised," says a senior official at Kuwait's Higher Planning Council...
...greater importance than anything Basa and a score of others smuggled into Kuwait was the wealth of data they smuggled out. Within a day of the Iraqi invasion on Aug. 2, the Kuwaiti government, already operating in Saudi Arabia, had compiled an intriguing shopping list -- computerized information desperately needed for the country's business to continue despite the nation's physical occupation. "We are not called Kuwait Inc. for nothing," says Basa, who ran a small construction company before August and is now living with his family in Cairo. "Before we are a nation, we are a business. The nationality...
While merely convenient before Aug. 2, the system has served as a lifeline since the invasion. By all accounts, Kuwait City is functioning well for Kuwaitis; however onerous the occupation, Iraq's control of the city is not total. Neighborhood committees provide a range of services one would think impossible in the circumstances: food that was secreted in the early days of August is distributed according to need, rudimentary medical service is available, and as the world now knows, scores of foreigners were successfully hidden from Iraqi authorities for more than four months...