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Iraq's ready to return Kuwait's archives...
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says he is "encouraged and hopeful" that Iraq will return most of Kuwait's looted national archives. In early May, Annan said he had been told by Arab League leader Amr Moussa that Iraq wanted to return nearly 90 percent of the archives taken after it invaded Kuwait in 1990. Diplomatic sources said Iraq was prepared to return about two tons of material. Kuwait maintains that during the seven-month occupation, Iraq took archives from the foreign ministry, the prime minister's office and other government departments, as well as military hardware and valuable museum pieces. As well as bankbooks, cash, jewelry, rugs, lamps, cars, furniture, plumbing, and anything else that wasn't nailed down, and some that was. "Why certainly, Mr al-Sabah. We'd be happy to return your belongings. Don't know how they got mixed in with ours... Now, about normalizing relations? We wouldn't want any, uh, Foreigners to come sneakin' around these here parts, would we? Certainly no, uh... ummmm..." "Merkins?" "Yes. Those people. Bad as Zionists, y'know? Excitable. Unpredictable. Never know what they're going to do..." Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-06-18 |
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