| Kuwait will demand that Saddam Hussein be sentenced to death for crimes against the oil-rich Gulf Arab state, public prosecutor Hamed al-Othman said in remarks published on Tuesday. Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait in 1990-91 and Kuwait acted as the launch pad for the US-led Iraq war that toppled Saddam last year. The former Iraqi leader is in US custody following his capture in December. Othman told the Kuwait Times daily newspaper that the Kuwait government had prepared a long list of charges, supported by evidence, against Saddam. He said the Kuwaiti Council of Ministers recently formed a committee headed by Justice Minister Ahmad Baqer to join Kuwait’s prosecution in Saddam’s trial. The government, which is cooperating with Iraqi prosecutors to arrange for Kuwait’s involvement in a trial of Saddam, has prepared numerous files including hundreds of testimonies by Kuwaiti and other victims of the former Iraqi regime, he added. |