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Wearing a Saddam Hussein T shirt in a country recently invaded and plundered by the Iraqi leader's forces is a provocative thing to do. But is it worthy of a 15-year jail term followed by deportation? That was the punishment a Kuwaiti court handed last week to an Iraqi man accused of that offense. Later, responding to international outrage over the sentence, the Kuwaiti government claimed that the man had also worked for Iraqi intelligence. But by that time the authorities had precious little credibility as they tried to defend their brand of justice. Among 10 people tried...
From the first days after Kuwait's liberation, journalists and human-rights groups have chronicled major violations -- detentions, beatings, torture, summary executions -- committed by Kuwaiti armed forces and vigilantes seeking revenge against those suspected of collaborating with the Iraqis. But the Bush Administration, which loudly denounced Iraqi atrocities in occupied Kuwait, has consistently played down charges of abuses by the gulf state the U.S. fought to liberate. Items...
...case postponed was that of an Iraqi woman, Jasmiyya Mohammed Salman, accused of denouncing a Kuwaiti resistance member living in her building...
...With the Kuwaiti government still disorganized and short of cash, the anticipated bonanza in postwar recovery contracts for U.S. firms has proved something of a mirage. But one enterprising U.S. company has shown how to get business anyway: Don't wait for the contract -- just start working...
Government incompetence has also complicated Kuwait's rebirth. U.S. firms ! involved in the reconstruction have complained of long delays in clearing equipment through both Kuwaiti and Saudi customs. The most alarming case of sluggishness has been in extinguishing the more than 500 oil fires set by the departing Iraqis. So far, only 12 have been put out. And of the scores of sabotaged wells that were gushing oil but not burning, only 44 have been capped. The government blames the contractors -- three of them American and one Canadian -- for the slow progress. But the companies complain of cumbersome red tape...