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Kwaiti says it identified four missing Kuwaitis dead in Iraq

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The spokesman for the search team for "misssing Kuwaitis and prisoners in Iraq" Fayez al-Oneizi said yesterday that the remains of four Kuwaiti missing were found in a mass grave in al-Samawa area to the south of Iraq.

In a statement to the Kuwaiti TV, al-Oneizi claimed that DNA tests on the remains of the bodies in the grave which four of them proved to be for Kuwaitis; three men and one woman, the Iraqi forces had detained in 1990 during its invasion of Kuwait.

The team announced that discovered the bodies are for Nasser Hussein al-Anzi ( 64 year old), Anam al-Eidan ( 41 year old), Abdul Latif al-Wahim ( 41 year old) and Mahmoud Sayed Hassan ( 51 ) year old.

The team also were able to recognize the identity of other three Kuwaitis in the said cemetery since the beginning of June.

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