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          Performing in purple underwear on MTV hardly seems like qualification for the toughest legal job on the planet: defending suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay. Then again, Kristine Huskey is not your typical lawyer       Gitmo's Girl  Gitmo's Girl Shortly before their first visit to Guantánamo Bay, on the day after Christmas in 2004, Kristine Huskey and her colleagues were told they could put together a special care package for their 12 Kuwaiti clients, none of whom they'd ever met. Stunned by this small act of grace — you can bring food down there? — the...

WHEN THE IRAQI REGIME collapsed in April 2003, few observers saw reason to mourn the loss of Saddam's brutal dictatorship. While a great deal of information about the former Iraqi regime's assorted atrocities has been uncovered since the invasion, newly-released documents go even further in demonstrating its manifest depravity. One such document is CMPC-2003-012666, a letter from Qusay Hussein that directs as follows: Transfer all Kuwaiti POW's / a total of 448 captured Kuwaitis who are located at the Al-Nida Al-Agher Prison and the Intelligence / General Center and Kazema Prison in Al-Kazema, to make them human shields at all...

KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwaiti prosecutors have drawn up a list of charges against ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and hundreds of his officials for alleged war crimes committed during Iraq's occupation of the Gulf nation, the prosecutor general said Wednesday. The list will be delivered to the Iraqi court that will try Saddam and other former regime members and the new charges will be added to the existing allegations, prosecutor general Hamed al-Othman said, according to the state-owned Kuwait News Agency. Saddam, who was captured in December 2003, already faces charges in Iraq that include killing rival politicians during his...

Fresh evidence suggests that most, if not all, Kuwaitis who disappeared after Iraq invaded its oil-rich neighbour in August 1990 were killed, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said. “After many years of manoeuvring and denial by the previous government of Iraq, a grim truth is unveiling itself,” he said in a report yesterday. “The discovery of mass graves in Iraq containing the mortal remains of Kuwaitis is a gruesome and devastating development.” The Kuwaiti government has stepped up efforts to identify about 605 of its citizens who disappeared after the Iraqi invasion. Saddam Hussein’s regime had insisted it had...

EIGHTEEN Kuwaitis held since the 1991 Gulf War were among prisoners in an underground shelter in Baghdad, Abu Dhabi satellite television reported today, quoting a former Iraqi colonel. The men "are alive ... and in an underground shelter near the military tribunal in the Al-Khadra district," the channel said without naming its source. Kuwait says 605 people disappeared during Baghdad's occupation of the emirate in 1990-1991 and believes many were kept in Iraqi jails. The emirate on Saturday offered a reward to anyone who helps determine the fate of the missing people. "We have no information on the whereabouts of...

Leaving Kuwait Tuesday, March 18, 2003; 3:50 PM As war looms in neighboring Iraq, travellers at Kuwait International Airport tried to get last-minute flights out of the country. Video here.

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/14/03 - Iraqi Rockets, al-Qaqa, Rafah, Ababil-100, Al Rahad, Youssifiya, Al Samoud, Rasheed, Aziziyah, Ibn Firna, drones, WMD, Al Taje, al-Slam, Tikrit, Al Islaha, Taji, Doura, Kuwaitis, missing children,Terrorist Perp, Valencia, MOAB,Predators BREAKING: Iraqi Rockets BREAKING: al-Qaqa missiles site, Rafah military facility, BREAKING: Ababil-100 missile, Al Rahad missiles BREAKING: Youssifiya - Old retrofitted single stage missiles, Al Samoud missile factory BREAKING: Rasheed - A little welding goes far to fool the UN BREAKING: Aziziyah - missile heads with proven WMD BREAKING: Ibn Firnas military industrial compound - drones for WMD-release, BREAKING: Al...

KUWAIT: Four Kuwaitis jailed for five years were convicted of fighting for Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers against US forces, their lawyer said on Tuesday. "According to court documents they all fought in Afghanistan against the Americans after September 11," the attorney, Osama al-Munawir, said. They were jailed on Monday on charges of joining the military of a foreign country and acting in manner that harms Kuwait, he said. "These charges cannot be correct because one of them had been in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2000 and returned home before the events of September 11," he said. Munawir said he would...

Kuwaitis withdraw capital from US By Jack Fairweather in Kuwait (Filed: 01/01/2003) Kuwaitis, faced with the threat of war against Iraq, are withdrawing hundreds of millions of dollars from America to invest at home. Kuwait's stock market has soared by more than 30 per cent in the past year, and last month alone around $90 million (£60 million) was removed from investment projects in America. The reason, according to one Kuwaiti investor, is simple: "People in Kuwait are looking at what happened to America on September 11, and all the threats of further terrorism, and have reached the decision that...

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (CSM) - Above the entry for Sept. 11, 2003, in Mohammed Al-Mulaifi's personalized calendar is a short eulogy. "Osama, you are an honor to your people," it begins. "Let us be honest with ourselves: Who does not like Osama? God knows that we love him! How can we prevent ourselves from loving a person who humiliated the greatest atheist state and the (Christian) cross protector and soiled it with dust?" Not until halfway through the poem does it become clear that Mulaifi is paying homage not to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but to Osama bin Zeid,...

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — While millions of Arabs decry the U.S. military presence in the Middle East and Washington's desire to attack Iraq, many Kuwaitis wouldn't have it any other way — the country is an island of support for America. It's been a decade since U.S. troops threw Saddam Hussein's army out of Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War, and Kuwaitis have not forgotten. ``If the United States were not here, maybe you wouldn't see me sitting at this coffee shop today, owning a mobile phone and being able to relax with my family,'' said Reda Shashtari, 56, a...

The two Kuwaiti gunmen who died in a shootout that also killed a US marine and wounded another have been hailed by many of their countrymen as anti-American "heroes." Anas Ahmad Ibrahim al-Kandari, 21, and Jassem Hamad Mubarak al-Hajeri, 26, were condemned as "terrorists" by Kuwaiti and US authorities. Yet for the scores of Kuwaitis who turned up for their burial on Wednesday, they were "martyrs" who gave their lives in the ultimate expression of anti-American feelings in the Gulf emirate. Kandari and Hajeri killed a US marine and wounded another participating in the "Eager Mace 2002" wargames on Kuwait's...