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...grisliest sights," said Dowell, "was the morgue at Al-Sabah Hospital. All of the bodies had been mutilated." Reporter Lara Marlowe found a resistance headquarters in the suburb of Qarain, where she was shown 16 Iraqi prisoners. "No one realized what evil the Iraqis had done until we got here," she said. "It was hard to understand how these frightened, wounded people could be part of a war machine that raped and tortured...
Kuwait makes no secret of its gratitude to the Yanks. Sheik Saud Nasir al- Sabah, Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S., outlined his country's policy in a January letter to Republican Representative Helen Bentley of Maryland. He said Kuwait planned "to award the largest proportion of contracts to U.S. companies, in recognition of the immense sacrifice the people of the United States are making in the liberation of Kuwait...
...Saudis and Kuwaitis have aided poorer Arab states in the past, but their postwar funding will be hedged. "Bad economic policy, too socialist in its orientation, has kept those countries poor," says Ali al-Khalifa al-Sabah, Kuwait's Finance Minister. "We want to see true market economies develop," says a Saudi finance official. "Our aid from now on will be mainly structural in form. If we can get those countries on their feet financially, a lot of the underlying instability in the region can be alleviated...
Some of the Shi'ite resistance members are believed to have been part of a secret organization set up by Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. They were there not to support the ruling family of the Emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, but to topple it. When the Emir fled the country, however, the same Shi'ites, including women in chadors, came out to demonstrate, brandishing photographs of the Emir. "You shouldn't be surprised at this," said a Western diplomat who lived in Kuwait. "In the Middle East, groups can change sides very quickly...
...Iraqis; if they manage to seize control of the capital before the allies arrive, they might demand democratic concessions from the ruling family. "The politics of liberation are very complex," said a Western diplomat. "It could take place on the terms of the Kuwaiti resistance." The ruling Sabah family has promised to respect the constitution of 1962 by holding parliamentary elections sometime after liberation. But the exiled opposition and resistance leaders are skeptical. The crown prince, Sheik Saad, has said he may install martial law first...