Word: hendawi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hard-to-confirm tales of destruction and rape abound. Saddam, who knows that such reports undermine his claim to have restored law-and-order in Kuwait, has introduced summary trial and execution for looters. Hamza Hendawi, a Reuters correspondent who escaped from Kuwait last week, reports that as a warning to thieves, Iraqi forces strung up the body of an executed lieutenant colonel on a crane and left it dangling outside Kuwait's municipal headquarters. A placard around the corpse's neck read HE STOLE THE MONEY OF THE PEOPLE. Beneath the body were piled stolen clothes and electrical goods...
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