Kuwait Lashes Out at Iraqi Propaganda CampaignsKuwait on Saturday lashed out at what it called the recent Iraqi propaganda campaigns against Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.During a meeting with the editors in chief of Kuwaiti newspapers, Kuwaiti First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said these "agressive acts are not only directed against Kuwait and Saudi Arabia but also against all Gulf countries." "Such Iraqi threats come to confirm our doubts about the credibility of the Iraqi regime and about any possibility it abides by relevant United Nations resolutions," Sheikh Sabah said. He said that the threats posed by Iraq to the security and stability of Kuwait prove once again that the Iraqi regime is still continuing its agressive policy against Kuwait in violation of U.N. resolutions concerning Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The Kuwaiti official added that Iraq's continuous campaign against Kuwait and Saudi Arabia "stirs the astonishment of the world community." In a speech made earlier this month, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein criticized Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states for hosting Western military bases since 1991. Saddam said the leaders of certain Gulf states "should be ashamed that the aggressors' planes take off from their territories to strike Iraqi targets, killing its women, men and children and destroy what they possess." In reaction to Saddam's remarks, Kuwait once put some of its armed forces on alert for "any emergency". But the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) denied that Baghdad had made any threats against Kuwait. |
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