Al-Seyash: An Iraqi document admits Kuwaiti prisoners

A Kuwaiti paper said on Sunday a "smuggled" official Iraqi document admitted that there are four Kuwaiti prisoners held by Baghdad since the Gulf war in 1991.

The document, a memorandum, the Kuwaiti daily al-Seyash got from members in the Iraqi opposition, undersigned by Qusai, son of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who chairs over the security department in the secretariat of the Iraqi Presidency. The document dates March 2nd, 2001 and addressed from Qusai to Avecina ( Ibn Sina ) hospital in Baghdad asking the hospital to check the health conditions of four members who are Issam Abdul Wahab al-Roumi; Asal Turkey al-Ajamai; Ali Amman, and Abd al-Qudsi.

Mozawakg al-Mteiri, the chairman of the families of the Kuwaiti prisoners and detainees told al-Seyasha that the four are Kuwaiti citizens whose names were mentioned in the lists as missing or taken at the knowledge of the Iraqi forces during the occupation of Iraq to Kuwait which lasted for seven moths 1990- 1991.

Kuwait claims that more than 600 Kuwaitis and other war prisoners are held in Iraq since the Gulf war. However, Iraq denies these claims.

Worthy mentioning that among the numerous decisions included in the UN resolutions following the Gulf war, imposed on Iraq is a decision that sets a precondition for the return back of the war prisoners or explaining what happened to them in order to lift the trade sanctions imposed on Iraq.