Some Kuwaiti MPs Angered by Aid for Iraq

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031025/wl_nm/iraq_donors_kuwait_dc&cid=574&ncid=1473

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Some Kuwaiti MPs voiced anger on Saturday at news their government had promised more aid to Iraq, the country that invaded the Gulf Arab state a decade ago.

"This money... should not be given to the Iraqis who invaded Kuwait and destroyed it," Islamist MP Khaled al-Adwa said in remarks published by al-Anbaa daily on Saturday.

Other lawmakers welcomed the move as a humanitarian gesture but warned it must not undermine Kuwait's claims of billions of dollars in war reparations against Iraq.

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Prince Mohammad al-Salem al-Sabah said on Friday at a meeting of donors in Madrid that Kuwait had already provided $1 billion in aid for Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein and would offer a further $500 million. snip

"If Spain is giving $300 million and Britain $320 million, how can we donate this large sum?" he asked.

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[UpInArms]

1. see Hill and Knowlton

represented the Kuwaitis and now they have to pay the bill

http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id405/pg1/

Americans, on the other hand, watch too much television. The Bush administration and other saber-rattlers took advantage of the eyes-open brain-shut power of the hypno-ray in the buildup to 1991's Persian Gulf War. Hill and Knowlton, a public relations firm, fabricated the story of Iraqi soldiers dumping Kuwaiti children out of hospital incubators, and even got the story before Congress. Even Amnesty International was suckered. The "witness" Nayirah was later revealed as the daughter of Sheik Saud Nasir Al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to America. Covert Action Quarterly (Spring 1993) discovered that Hill and Knowlton had been paid $11 million to conduct the campaign by the Citizens for a Free Kuwait. The same year, a joint British/Canadian news crew interviewed medical teams and visited Kuwaiti hospitals, and proved that the incubator story was false.

[realFedUp]

2. Supposedly Iraq owes Kuwait money

...does seem odd. Newsman said last night
that a lot of money is coming to Iraq from World
Bank and IMF, which means it's actually coming
from American taxpayers again...

[Mikimouse]

3. Please excuse the ignorance, but

didn't Kuwait owe Iraq some money after the end of the Iran/Iraq war? If I am mistaknely remembering the situation, please set me straight. Wasn't there also some argument about the Kuwaitis slant drilling into Iraqi oil fields? I am probably wrong, but seem to recall that both of these were issues in 1991.

[DUreader]

4. Slant drilling is correct, may have been Halliburton even

I/I war I do not know