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July 10, 1991 | Associated Press
Kuwait's National Council opened Tuesday in what government officials hailed as the first step toward democracy, but the opposition criticized it as a fig leaf concealing the Sabah dynasty's absolute rule. "I think it's a good start. It's a legitimate thing when you have 50 members elected by the people . . . and it will serve to bring up a loud debate inside Kuwait," said Sheik Nasser al Sabah al Ahmed al Sabah, a leading member of the emirate's ruling family.
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June 12, 1991 | SONNI EFRON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
In an apparent violation of an international agreement it signed in March, Kuwait forcibly repatriated at least 36 Iraqi civilians on Tuesday. The internees, including 11 women and six children, were taken from an immigration detention center in Kuwait city where about 600 people are reportedly awaiting deportation. They were loaded onto two buses bound for the border town of Abdaly, where they were to be marched across the no-man's-land into Safwan, Iraq.
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April 6, 1991 | DAVID FREED, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Not every enemy soldier fled north in February when coalition forces chased Saddam Hussein's army back to Iraq. Dozens of Iraqi stragglers, perhaps hundreds, have shed their uniforms and taken up residence in vacant homes here in this suburb of Kuwait city, authorities said Friday. Between 30 and 35 Iraqi soldiers posing as stateless Arabs have already been rooted out, according to Kuwaiti army intelligence officers. Many of the soldiers are believed to be survivors of the Feb.
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March 18, 1991 | BOB DROGIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The man wore only dirty white boxer shorts. His black pants were used to tie his hands behind him. His pink shirt was used as a blindfold. Nothing covered the black bruises on his muscular arms or the crudely stitched gash in his forehead. But sometime early Sunday, he was taken to an underpass on the Magreb Highway, the capital's main artery, and forced to kneel.
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March 13, 1991 | BOB DROGIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Kuwaiti military has dumped hundreds of people, arrested since liberation two weeks ago, on Iraq's border, and several said they had been tortured and brutally beaten by Kuwaiti troops in a secret prison. U.S. military police say three to four buses and trucks have arrived daily for at least four days, dropping Palestinians, Jordanians, North Africans and Iraqis at this desolate border crossing. Many were badly bruised, and at least two men required hospitalization, the Americans said.
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February 26, 1991 | MARK FINEMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
In the final days and hours before the massive allied ground assault began on occupied Kuwait, Youssef Douba watched helplessly as some of his best friends simply disappeared. A few showed up a short while later, dumped at their doorsteps--with bullet holes in their head. "It was getting worse in the final days. The Iraqis were taking everyone and everything," said the 21-year-old ethnic Syrian, who left his native Kuwait just two hours before the land war began.