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Translated Text of an Iraqi Document Concerning Kuwait POWs As the opening date of Operation Freedom neared, Qusai Saddam Hussein-one of Saddam’s bloodthirsty sons, made arrangements to move captured Kuwaiti prisoners into critical locations, to serve as “human shields”. There were 448 Kuwaitis, captured during the First Gulf War ,when Saddam made his infamous incursion into Kuwait. By the terms of the UN Cease Fire agreements –signed by Iraq on 3/03/91- all Kuwaitis were supposed to have been freed and repatriated without delay. Clearly,this never happened ; and sadly,the ultimate fate of these 448 helpless captives is unknown. CMPC-2003-012666 Republican...

Al-Qa'ida Website, Back On-Line Publishes Book About its War on the U.S. and Bombing in Saudi Arabia Al-Qa'ida's website, which was originally called Al-Nida and then changed its name and URL every few days to avoid being hacked, had disappeared from the Internet following the killing of its site director, Sheikh Yousef Al-Ayyeri, in early June 2003 in Saudi Arabia. The website has now been reactivated, at http://www.faroq.org/news/. Among the postings on the site is a book called "The Raid of the 11th of Rabi' Al-Awwal - The Eastern Riyadh Operation and Our War on America and Its Agents." The...