Hangings Sought for Gulf War Crimes
KUWAIT CITY —
The Kuwaiti government will seek to hang most of the 600 Iraqi, Palestinian and other prisoners being held for alleged war crimes, a prosecutor said.
The government will also try in absentia hundreds of Iraqi officers who fled Kuwait as allied forces closed in, said Khalid Mudaf, a Justice Ministry official who will head the prosecutions. Those in custody are suspected of “robbery, murder, rape, kidnaping, arson, assault and forgery,” he said.
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