Flight Attendants Deny Reported Iraqi Rape
Two British airline flight attendants have denied a Tunisian colleague’s assertion that they were raped by Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait, a Foreign Office spokesman said Wednesday.
“They told us they were not raped or assaulted and they said they were safe and well,” the spokesman said.
Nawal Bel Hadj, 24, said Monday in Amman, Jordan, that she had seen Iraqi troops rape five Kuwaiti Airlines stewardesses--two Britons, two Egyptians and a Filipina--in a hostel in Kuwait city on Aug. 7, five days after the Iraqi invasion.
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