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...ferocity of the attack on the environment was matched by the depredations inflicted on the Kuwaiti people. The killing, torturing, kidnapping and theft that marked the entire occupation accelerated to an even more barbaric pace as the occupiers prepared to cut and run. The fleeing Iraqis apparently abducted thousands of Kuwaitis whose whereabouts remain unknown. Many Kuwaitis are convinced that the Iraqis dragged off the captives to use as bargaining chips in negotiations with the allies...
...friends and neighbors and cousins have disappeared." Enad al-Ban, a 24-year-old member of the resistance, said he was rounded up by the Iraqi security forces on Feb. 22 after he had finished Friday prayers at a mosque; he was one of hundreds of Kuwaitis taken almost at random by the security forces that day. "They were trying to catch any Kuwaiti they could," he said. "They put me in prison, and I was surprised to see that 3,000 others like me were also there...
...city, and there was no reason to doubt them. Almost everyone on the street last week spoke of losing a friend or family member. Resistance fighters who went to Adan Hospital, looking for five of their comrades who had been arrested, found their bodies. Said Tareq Ahmad, 23, a Kuwaiti air force sergeant serving in the resistance: "The Iraqis had drilled holes in their heads, and they had holes in their hands, feet and shoulders as if they had been crucified...
...Kuwaiti doctor too nervous to give his name told arriving journalists that Iraqis often dismembered prisoners before killing them. "Some of the bodies were missing noses," he said. "Some had their eyes taken out. What the Iraqis did was beyond belief...
Second only to the Iraqis as a target of Kuwaiti rage are the more than 300,000 Palestinians who lived and worked in Kuwait before the invasion. Because the Palestine Liberation Organization allied itself with Saddam, Iraqi forces in Kuwait treated many local Palestinians as a kind of auxiliary force. They helped administer and police the country and were rewarded with special privileges. Palestinians manned checkpoints, for example, and were permitted to sell consumer goods in street stalls, something that was illegal before...