Resistance Leaders Slain by Troops, Kuwaiti Says
A Kuwaiti businessman said Saturday that he saw Iraqi soldiers summarily execute eight men accused of resistance activities in occupied Kuwait.
The eight were “murdered by Iraqi soldiers who shot them with pistols,” said the businessman, who spoke by a satellite telephone link--a rarity in this region since the Aug. 2 takeover of Kuwait by Iraq’s forces.
“Each victim was killed with one bullet in the head and another in the heart,” he said, adding that the killings occurred Sept. 21.
The same day, the Iraqis rounded up 17 businessmen and former legislators on charges of refusing to cooperate with the occupation authorities, said the businessman, who spoke on condition his name was not used.
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