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...expressed his displeasure with the war by attempting to burn a Kuwaiti flag at the rally. Although he somewhat regrets his action now, Gallagher insists there was a point to it. He "couldn't ignore the character of the regimes we were bailing out... It was like the Americans were being the mercenaries for an Arab sheikdom...
...March 8, State Department deputy spokesman Richard Boucher was asked about Kuwaiti mistreatment of Palestinians. "There are reports of people getting a hard time at checkpoints," he said. "We do not have information on beatings and killings...
...After Amnesty International reported on April 18 that scores of Kuwaiti residents had been arbitrarily arrested, "many brutally tortured by Kuwaiti armed forces and members of 'resistance' groups," the State Department replied that "the situation by most accounts in Kuwait is very much improved over what existed some weeks ago" -- thus contradicting its earlier upbeat assessments. State said it was continuing "to discuss with the Kuwaiti authorities all reports of abuses," but did not say whether it considered any of those reports to be true...
...indirectly."The Crown Prince made clear that there were human-rights abuses following the early days of the liberation," said Baker. He did not publicly condemn those violations on behalf of the U.S. A month later, human-rights workers said they had evidence of continuing abuses, many committed by Kuwaiti officials...
...After last week's summary trial of suspected collaborators, State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler consulted Ambassador Gnehm and chose to emphasize the positive. She said the U.S. embassy had urged the Kuwaiti government "to have open trials; they were open. We also urged that the defendants have a right to counsel; they did." But she ignored the fact that lawyers had not met their clients, saw none of the prosecution's evidence and could not cross-examine witnesses. Under questioning, she acknowledged "glitches" in the trials. Only later did the State Department issue a mild communique saying...