The former Iraqi regime executed 140 Kuwaiti POWs, four bedouins and five foreigners, says Al-Qabas. Quoting from three official Iraqi documents, a reliable source said former Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Saeed Al-Sahaf, his Undersecretary Riyad Al-Quaisi and former Iraqi Ambassador to Egypt Nabil Najim had conspired to conceal the facts. The documents reveal Sahaf suggested the issuance of death certificates to prove the victims died during an US raid on Iraq and the uprising in southern Iraq in 1993, he added.
| Sahaf is Baghdad Bob, in an earlier life. He's so funny, hah hah! (Mahmoud, shoot him!) |
The documents are reported to be official communications between the leadership of Iraq, that country's Foreign Ministry and Riyad Al-Quaisi from May-July, 1993. Al-Quaisi was the chairman of a committee tasked to deal with Kuwaiti POWs and missing. In a letter to Iraq's leadership on May 17, 1993, Sahaf said 104 Kuwaitis, four bedouins and five persons of other nationalities were executed. Adequate information is not available on some 265 persons, the cases of 136 persons are under study and one Kuwaiti has been released, he added. In the same letter, Sahaf said Iraqi military intelligence had failed to provide sufficient information on 56 Kuwaiti POWs. In a confidential letter to Sahaf on July 27, 1993, Al-Quaisi suggested how to deal with Kuwaiti POWs. Confirming the execution of 140 Kuwaitis, five bedouins and five foreigners in this letter, Al-Quaisi suggested to blame their death on an US raid and the uprising in southern Iraq.
| Good idea. Blame it on the Merkins. Everybody'll believe that. |
"We should claim all documents relating to the death and burial of Kuwaiti POWs were lost during the uprising," Al-Quaisi suggested. The third document is a letter from Nabil Najim to Sahaf on Aug 8, 1993, reporting on what transpired during his meeting with the then Secretary-General of Arab League Esmat Abdulmajeed in which Najim said, "I informed Esmat that we have information on 200 Kuwaiti POWs and he asked me to release the information without further delay." |