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Last Saturday, two Americans, David Daliberti of Jacksonville, Florida, and William Barloon of New Hampton, Iowa, were each sentenced to eight years in prison by an Iraqi court for illegally entering Iraq. The U.S. condemned the sentences, arguing that the two men, both employees of U.S. defense contractors in Kuwait, strayed over the border accidentally. The Iraqi action comes just as the U.S. is preparing to support a U.N. resolution permitting Saddam to sell more oil--so long as at least 50% of the proceeds go to humanitarian relief and the rest to compensate Gulf War victims...
...visit to Kuwait, the U.N.'s top weapons inspector suggested that Iraq may have produced bacteria for biological weapons. "We have certain suspicions about one facility," said Rolf Ekeus, adding the U.N. Special Commission overseeing the destruction of Iraq's non-conventional weapons was told the material had "disappeared in the general turmoil" during the Gulf...
Iraqi police arrested two Americans working in Kuwait after they crossed into Iraq without authorization. The men, who were trying to visit friends at a U.N. camp near the border, were arrested after they were accidentally sent through a border crossing by the U.N. observer mission...
SINCE THE END OF THE GULF WAR IN 1991, VARIOUS American journalists, businessmen, even a bomb-disposal expert have found themselves in Iraqi jails after wandering across the border with Kuwait. In most cases they were held for a few days or weeks and then quietly released. But last week when two civilian defense contractors were detained after straying into southern Iraq, State Department officials were worried that this time they might not be so fortunate...
...Iraqi parliament that thetwo Americans arrested just inside Iraqlast week were U.S. saboteurs. The two, civilian workers William Barloon and David Daliberti, were sentenced Saturday to eight years in prison for entering the country illegally, though they said they were visiting a friend just across the border from Kuwait. At home, the White House fought GOP calls to consider a military rescue mission if Iraq does not release the men. Sunday, presidential candidate Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said President Clinton should publicly weigh military options, while House Speaker Newt Gingrich joined the chorus today: "We want this nonsense...