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Bush administration betrays Iraq war POWs.(Insider Report)(prisoners of war)(George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
"During the [1991] Persian Gulf War, Iraq brutally tortured U.S. prisoners of war," recounted attorney John Morton Moore in a November 10 Washington Post column. "Saddam Hussein's secret police broke bones; shattered skulls and eardrums; and whipped, burned, shocked, beat, starved and urinated on our POWs. Yet these brave Americans, as did generations of POWs before them, refused to give in to their captors."
Before the current war began, 17 Gulf War POWs and 37 of their family members filed a lawsuit demanding financial compensation from Saddam's regime. The Bush administration, however, moved to seize Iraqi assets that "the POWs had been counting on to enforce their judgment," continued Moore. "In seizing the entire $1.7 billion, leaving nothing for the POWs, the administration argued that the money was urgently needed for the 'reconstruction of Iraq.'" (Attentive Americans might recall that prior to the war, Vice President Cheney and Deputy Secretary of State Paul ...
- Kuwait hopes for answers on its Gulf War POWs; Iraq will hold talks next month...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor December 23, 2002 700+ words
...National Committee for the Missing and POW Affairs in 1993. The committee has...after the Iraqi invasion. In 1997, Iraq released details on 126 missing Kuwaitis...nurse and her monthly benefit from the POW committee. (c) Copyright 2002. The...
- POWs from Iraq-Iraq war return home.
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder Washington Bureau (Washington, DC) May 6, 2003 700+ words
...be sent back to Iraq. Neither Iran nor Iraq have said how...release all of the POWs. (EDITORS...charge of the POW repatriation for...Several of the POWS seemed frightened...thought of a postwar Iraq without Saddam...TRIM) Not every POW will have a family...
- POWs from Iraq-Iraq war return home.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Fan, Maureen May 6, 2003 700+ words
...be sent back to Iraq. Neither Iran nor Iraq have said how...release all of the POWs. (EDITORS...charge of the POW repatriation for...Several of the POWS seemed frightened...thought of a postwar Iraq without Saddam...TRIM) Not every POW will have a family...
- After 13 years, a new hope for Kuwaiti POWs in Iraq; Hussein's ouster brings...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor April 22, 2003 700+ words
...danger. If the Kuwaiti POWs were being held in secret...Committee for the Missing and POWs, and hundreds of others...collapsed, the Kuwaiti POWs would be on their way...Attar says the Kuwait POW issue may be similar to the US search for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction...
- Former POWs suing Iraq for $910 million.
- Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) January 24, 2003 700+ words
...Washington were unsuccessful. Iraq has more than $1.7...brutal torture of American POWs. It's very important...than 100 pages _ says the POWs endured starvation, electric...representatives, said Fennell. Iraq was found to be in default...nerve damage. Fellow POW Zaun said he was held...
- Kuwaiti volunteers begin hunt for POWs in Iraq.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire April 14, 2003 700+ words
...searching for Kuwaiti POWs kept in Iraq by Saddam Husayn...effort to find the POWs and help them return...chaos prevailing in Iraq. Working in coordination...different areas in Iraq for a two-week...to look for Kuwaiti POWs. More than 600 Kuwaiti...
- Iran seeks release of POWs in Iraq.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 21, 2003 700+ words
...possibility of a U.S. attack on Iraq. Brigadier General Abdullah Najafi, Head of Iran's POWs Commission, told Gulf News...past eight years Iran and Iraq have exchanged and determined...A large number of Iraqi POWs have sought asylum in Iran...
- Kuwaiti-Bulgarian discussions focus on POWs in Iraq.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire June 20, 2003 700+ words
...situation between Kuwait and Iraq, should include a paragraph...to the issue of the Kuwaiti POWs and detainees in Iraq. A Kuwaiti diplomatic source...work hard and to search inside Iraq to find the Kuwaiti POWs as soon as possible. Discussions...
- Gulf War POWs sue Iraq. (Security).(charges of mistreatment and torture lobbed...
- Magazine article from: VFW Magazine June 1, 2002 700+ words
Seventeen Gulf War POWs filed suit in a Washington...suit, which also names Iraq and the Iraqi Intelligence...relatives. The 17 former POWs also want $300 million...23 Americans were held by Iraq as POWs during the war. None died...
- Kuwaiti foreign minister says contacts continue over POWs in Iraq.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire April 12, 2003 700+ words
...are exerted to locate the Kuwaiti POWs held in Iraqi prisons. Speaking...added that the issue of Kuwaiti POWs is the government's main concern...contact with the coalition forces in Iraq, adding that the POWs issue is among the US and British...
Source: HighBeam Research, Bush administration betrays Iraq war POWs.(Insider Report)(prisoners...