Command Post: "From Abu Dhabi Satellite TV, via The Australian
Eighteen Kuwaitis held since the 1991 Gulf War were among prisoners in an underground shelter in Baghdad, Abu Dhabi satellite television reported today, quoting a former Iraqi colonel."
The men " are alive ... and in an underground shelter near the military tribunal in the Al-Khadra district ," the channel said without naming its source.
Kuwait says 605 people disappeared during Baghdad's occupation of the emirate in 1990-1991 and believes many were kept in Iraqi jails. ... Apart from Kuwaiti nationals, the 605 people missing or taken prisoner include 14 Saudis, five Egyptians, five Iranians, four Syrians, three Lebanese, one Bahraini, one Omani and one Indian, according to Kuwaiti authorities.
Saddam's regime said there had been prisoners, but that it lost track of them during an uprising by Shi'ite Muslims in southern Iraq following its retreat from Kuwait.
