Word: kuwaiti
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...General Norman Schwarzkopf, the allied commander. Schwarzkopf said resistance had been light, with the exception of one Marine unit that ran into and repulsed an Iraqi counterattack. During the first 12 hours of the campaign, Schwarzkopf said, more than 5,500 Iraqi prisoners had been captured. But according to Kuwaiti sources, the actual number of Iraqis surrendering was at least 10 times greater than that...
...allied forces from the gulf area, a key point in Baghdad's proposals less than a week earlier. And this time Iraq did agree to a prompt exchange of prisoners. But the plan still conspicuously failed even to mention some key allied concerns, notably restoration of the preinvasion Kuwaiti emirate...
Another problem we could not bypass was the territorial and economic disputes between Iraq and Kuwait. Once again, according to our proposals, Saddam would know ahead of time that talks with the Kuwaiti leadership about these disputes would be organized within an Arab framework -- but only after the withdrawal of Iraq's forces from the entire territory that was under Kuwait's sovereignty until...
SADDAM HUSSEIN EXPLOITED Arabism and the Palestinian question to gain the support of the naive "have-nots" as well as the naive "haves." Dear fellow Arab Kuwaiti (whether you like it or not), let's not fall into the jaws of the sharks you were talking about, the Arab authoritarians promoting hostility among Arabs. Egyptian papers attack the Iraqi people, Saudi papers attack the Jordanian people. Kuwaiti papers attack the Palestinian people and vice versa. You said that the Iraqis betrayed you and Kuwait when they invaded your country...
...establish a strong Arab nation. Never was Zionism nor Israel nor the United States the reason for our humiliation, defeat and backwardness. It was certain Arab leaders who deceived Arab masses and betrayed Arabism, who lead us to our own destruction. This includes people like Saddam Hussein and the Kuwaiti royal family...