World IN BRIEF : IRAQ : British Engineer Gets Out of Prison
Iraq freed a British engineer whose release was one of Britain’s conditions for voting to end U.N. sanctions imposed against Iraq during the Persian Gulf crisis. Douglas Brand, imprisoned for life in May on spying charges, reportedly left Baghdad for Jordan. But Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said in London that Brand’s release is not enough to allow the easing of sanctions. Hurd said Britain also wants Iraq to free a British businessman imprisoned in 1986 for “economic corruption,” agree to destroy its weapons of mass destruction and pay compensation to Kuwait.
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