US Central Command announced Friday that remains found in a mass grave in southern Iraq could be those of Kuwaiti citizens missing since Iraq's 1990 invasion of the country. "The Kuwaiti prisoner of war task force and coalition forces are exploiting a mass gravesite recently found near As-Samawah," Central Command said in a statement dated "Southern Iraq."
| I think most of us figured the missing are actually dead... |
"Based on evidence found at this site, this could possibly be the remains of Kuwaiti citizens missing since the 1990 Iraqi invasion of the country," it said. Kuwait last month offered a one million dollar reward to anyone who provides the country with "authentic" information on the fate of more than 600 people missing since the 1990-91 Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, ended by the first Gulf war. Kuwait says 605 people disappeared during the occupation and believes many were kept in Iraqi jails. Apart from Kuwaiti nationals, the 605 missing or taken prisoner included 14 Saudis, five Egyptians, five Iranians, four Syrians, three Lebanese, one Bahraini, one Omani and one Indian, according to Kuwaiti authorities. Saddam Hussein's regime said there had been prisoners, but that it lost track of them during an uprising by Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq following the rout in Kuwait. |