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...leader Thafer Mohammed Jaber was captured on Sept. 3, 1995, and was being kept in one of Saddam's palaces. Jaber, say local Iraqis, has not been heard from since. In a 1990 letter, Uday reveals that his father plans to create a greater Iraq that includes Kuwait, Palestine and Arabstan, a region of Iran historically controlled by Baghdad. The note says Saddam is beginning with the easiest--Kuwait. And then there is Uday's university transcript from 1988, the year he was awarded a degree in civil engineering. "He ranked 1st in a class of 174 students," the transcript...
...last Friday, the hotel was swarming with some decidedly scruffy figures, as hordes of reporters, photographers and TV cameramen turned up for an emergency council of states bordering Iraq. Saudi Arabia had invited the foreign ministers of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait and also Egypt and Bahrain for a meeting to "crystallize a common stand", as its top diplomat Prince Saud al-Faisal put it, on the momentous events in their neighborhood...
...with a sizable investment may get up to three million bpd in a few years. At a projected an average price of $25 a barrel (which may be very optimistic) this would be only enough to provide each Iraqi citizen $1,125 per year. Contrast this to Kuwait, where oil sales could provide every man, woman and child over $10,000 a year. In order to raise the living standards of the average Iraqi oil, revenue will have to be one pillar used as a base to build a modern economy and not a magic elixir capable of creating...
...that could be done. And that means some tough bargaining lies ahead. Despite the elimination of Saddam Hussein's regime, ending sanctions is no simple matter for the UN. The reason: the purpose of those sanctions was not regime-change; it was to force Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait, and then, after that had been achieved, to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction. On the basis of current resolutions, the only legal mechanism by which the Security Council can terminate the binding sanctions regime is if Iraq is certified by UN arms inspectors to be free of weapons of mass...
Hall said that she made space in her schedule on the morning of March 13, a week before the U.S. invasion began, to receive the call from Kuwait...