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[Iraq_L] Iraq Demands Information From Kuwait



Iraq Demands Information From Kuwait

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq demanded Sunday that the international
community pressure Kuwait to release information on more than 1,150
Iraqis whom Baghdad claims have been missing in Kuwait since the 1991
Persian Gulf War.

Iraq has supplied Kuwait with ``strong and material evidence that some
of the missing were civilians arrested in their homes in Kuwait in front
of their families,'' Abdul Razaq al-Hashimi, head of the war prisoners
committee, was quoted as saying in the al-Thawra daily.

Al-Hashimi said that Kuwaiti authorities have given little and
contradictory information on some of the missing.

Kuwait has denied holding any Iraqi prisoners. It claims that more than
600 Kuwaitis went missing after Iraq invaded the oil-rich emirate in
1990. Duaij Anzi, manager of a Kuwaiti committee for war prisoners, told
The Associated Press that he will address Iraq's claims at a news
conference Tuesday.

Iraq has withdrawn from an international committee set up to look into
the issue of persons missing since the Gulf War that liberated Kuwait.
Baghdad claims the committee has not applied enough pressure on Kuwait
to reveal the whereabouts of the missing Iraqis.

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