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There never was a real problem, of course. The Kuwaitis themselves have been running the show all along (with disastrous consequences). "Skip is an adviser, a facilitator," says Ali Salem, a Kuwaiti resistance leader who stayed behind when the government fled to exile last August. "It's the government's own incompetence that has made them wary of someone who knows what he's doing. The fact is, we would probably be in better shape today if we had made Gnehm proconsul...
With Kuwait independent again, some of those who stayed behind yearn for aspects of the occupation. Supplies were more plentiful then, and those who had previously felt themselves to be mere employees of a business called Kuwait Inc. banded together as a nation. "For the first time," says Ali Salem, a resistance leader, "all barriers were breached. Shi'ite Muslims, who have long been discriminated against by the Sunni majority, were major players, perhaps even the most significant. We were, at least for that time, truly...
...addition, says Hamad al-Towgari, 34, a San Jose State University graduate who owns the Kuwait Plaza Hotel, the "real issue is what powers any parliament has. We want to be modern. We want something closer to a constitutional monarchy, something closer to the British ; system." Says Ali Salem, a member of the ruling al-Sabah family: "The oligarchy must give...
...instructions from the government-in-exile in Taif, the resistance has for the most part ceased sniping at the Iraqi occupiers. But scattered automatic- weapons gunfire can be heard in Kuwait City about once every two days. "Some targets," Salem explains, "are just too tempting...
...completely safe. "Someone is coming," Salem said last Friday at 7:30 p.m. "Call back tomorrow or Sunday. I'll be here, I hope...