Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gleaming new Chryslers and Mitsubishis fill the remodeled showroom of Bader al-Mulla and Bros. But upstairs the executive offices are still a charred shambles, torched by fleeing Iraqi troops 11 months ago. Anwar al-Mulla, on holiday in Europe when Iraq invaded Kuwait, returned at war's end to join his brothers in the monumental rebuilding task. Iraqis had seized 3,500 al-Mulla automobiles; the company's losses from fire and theft totaled $230 million. Al-Mulla's house, which served as the headquarters of Saddam Hussein's occupation overseer, was also devastated. His sole consolation: "They left...
...star hotels were targeted for destruction by Iraq's defeated army; now most are back in business. The eighth floor of the 406-room International Hotel was set aflame, but employees prevented the fire from engulfing the building. Hermann Simon, the Austrian general manager of the International, hands out Iraqi cartridge shells as souvenirs. "Only an Iraqi burns a hotel from the top," he says. "That's why we are still in business...
Schools and hospitals are functioning, although teachers and nurses are in short supply. The Iraqis stripped hospitals of medical equipment, but most of it has been replaced. Kuwaiti allegations that Iraqi soldiers killed premature babies by throwing them out of incubators may have been exaggerated, but doctors insist that an incubator shortage did cause the death of some newborns...
...rebuilding is well advanced, the country's psychic rehabilitation has barely begun. The seven-month occupation left deep scars that will take years to heal. Iraqi soldiers tortured or brutalized an estimated 15,000 Kuwaitis, including more than 1,000 female victims of rape, who are considered unmarriageable or pariahs by a conservative Islamic society. According to a government-authorized medical study, 350 Kuwaitis died during their imprisonment, usually after gruesome torture. Limbs were broken, eyes gouged out, ears and genitals cut off. In one case, a man was half immersed in a vat of acid. Men were killed...
...vigilante justice meted out by Kuwaiti resistance fighters against Palestinians suspected of collaboration with the enemy ended after a few weeks, leaving an estimated 100 Palestinians dead. But of the 300,000 Palestinian workers in the country before the Iraqi invasion, only about 30,000 remain. Most fled the government-encourag ed atmosphere of fear and intimidation...