European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 7, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 3 top re to i to 9 crisis in the gulf250,000 people left out of 1.9 million Cairo Egypt up Saddam Hussein a systematic destruction and looting of Kuwait May not leave much for . Led forces to liberate if they opt for military action. Recent accounts in Arab newspapers and testimony from refugees still fleeing the iraqi occupied emirate Lead exiled kuwaitis to believe that Saddam a forces continue to a terrorize the population and conduct a systematic program of theft and destruction a As one said. The . Security Council in october condemned Baghdad for looting the Ami rate and destroying its demographic records. The Council is Resolution made it Clear that Iraq would be held responsible for destroying records forcing kuwaitis out of their own country and relocating them against their will and seizing and destroying Public and private property. The Resolution apparently failed to persuade. Iraqi authorities to relax their grip on the emirate which one Cairo newspaper described As an attempt to reduce Kuwait to a a wasteland apart perhaps from its Oil Fields and a port. One saudi arabian official told Riyadh radio that Kuwait s population has dropped from 1.9 million people before the aug. 2 invasion to As few As 250,000 to 500,000. Iraq s apparent determination to devastate the emirate involves a two pronged Effort to Deport or relocate kuwaitis while stripping the country of All assets that May be useful to Iraq the saudi offi dal added. Terror remains one of the tools that the iraqis use to Force kuwaitis to leave or obey occupation troops he said the official died the example of Nabil akel a lebanese Engineer who fled Kuwait with his family three months after the invasion. Akel asked by a kuwaiti Friend to find a relatives body pretended to be a pales Tinian and was Given permission by iraqi authorities to visit Kuwait a skating rink which was being used As a morgue a a a the stench was so appalling that i could not Force myself through the door a akel was quoted As saying. Bodies were spewed All Over the rink on the Gray and Mushy ice. There was a truck outside waiting to carry the bodies away a akel said one person found carrying 150 kuwaiti dinars after Saddam declare the currency illegal was sprayed with bullets. A a the full extent of iraqi killings in Kuwait remains unknown although the kuwaiti embassy in Damascus Syria estimated iraqi troops had killed 4,500 people since aug. 2. V troops methods of intimidation include being trigger Happy and generally a a ,. Ftp die $4$ Rob Jago Dilnik Christmas Garland a Gulf style troops front he 82nd airborne div based fire exercise in saudi Arabia wednesday. Cd Enofrio Grande Valley Texas staff sgt. At fort Bragg n.c., feed 20mm rounds into pictured from left Are sgt 1st class James Eddie Toro of new York City and staff sgt a Vulcan anti aircraft gun during a live 1 Bennett of Reseda Call pfc. Robert san Doug Green of Springfield Ohio Lawless. Human rights groups have accused iraqi soldiers of random murders in the streets and during House searches. The troops have also reportedly executed people in front of their families and then burned Down their Homes. In addition iraqi authorities Are continuing their policy of turning Kuwait from a thriving commercial Center into a hungry unhealthy wasteland by looting private and Public property causing serious food shortages and deliberately interfering with essential services. Refugees quoted in egyptian and saudi arabian newspapers say huge consignments of loot from Kuwait Are taken to Iraq on daily convoys. The looting is so indiscriminate that much valuable equipment has been broken or abandoned or has turned out to be incompatible with equipment in Iraq they say. The looting has destroyed the emirate s medical services once among the Best in the world Cairo newspapers reported that the iraqi pillage has continued despite International protests with hospitals and doctors surgeries stripped of equipment while patients including the old physically handicapped and insane Are being turned out into the streets. Exile kuwaiti newspapers say the Only medical equipment left intact is for the use of iraqi troops and their supporters \ according to Asia technology the iraqi army has ransacked the kuwaiti Institute of scientific research one of the most important research centers in the Arab world or. Kent Carpenter a Marine biologist who fled Kuwait after the invasion said the iraqis even took books and papers. Iraq has let Trees shrubs and plants cultivated in kuwaiti Parks at a Cost of millions of dollars die through Lack of water according to United Arab emirates radio. Iraqi invaders have even looted Kuwait a famous museum of islamic Art Dar Al tharal isl Amiya. They have pillaged Kuwait University schools libraries sports centers a football stadium and almost All other Public buildings and meeting places. Quot Bridges roads and much of the rest of the infrastructure of the emirate have been destroyed while traffic signals and Street lights continue to be uprooted and taken to Baghdad where kuwaiti buses also Are seen in the streets. A liberation troops will be Lucky to find a desert when they arrive a commented one exiled kuwaiti newspaper. A for maybe the iraqis will plunder that As Well a. A by Randy Pruitt staff writer in Eastern saudi Arabia More than 100 americans Are being hidden in Kuwait City says a professor who fled from the country nov 29,. Abdullah Alsha Yeji who taught Commerce economics and political science at Kuwait University said he had spoken with four . Citizens in hiding and brought Back messages for their families a they Are wiped out mentally and physically they Are Basket cases every one of them a he said declining to discuss How or where he had talked to the americans Alsha Yeji who has taught Middle Eastern politics and . Foreign policy at Oklahoma state University and the University of Texas believes War is the Only Way to get Saddam Hussein to leave the nation he invaded aug,2. The forces he saw in Kuwait were a ragtag soldiers a he said at a news conference arranged by the exiled kuwaiti government. A most Are ready to surrender. They re Lucky to get one meal a Day. I Don t think they could sustain a Long  Alsha Yeji like Many of his countrymen left Kuwait by driving out with his family. He now is living in a hotel. He said it is virtually impossible for individuals to leave Kuwait but families Are permitted to pass through iraqi military checkpoints into saudi Arabia. A he said he remained in Kuwait after the invasion for personal  reasons. The instructor said the educational infrastructure of Kuwait has collapsed. The 600 schools that educated 400,000 students now Are closed. Before the invasion Kuwait University bad five campuses 18,000 students and 1,000 faculty members he said. It also is closed. A the iraqis have taken books bookshelves laboratories pc systems. Our offices Are Bare a he Saiq a it s devastating for a scholar a researcher to witness All his work that he a worked for All his life to be taken before his eyes. You can do  he said that world attention has focused on Western hostages but he pointed out that 8,000 to 15,000 kuwaitis Are prisoners of War he said it could Cost $50 billion to $100 billion to rebuild Kuwait a Alsha Yeji said that the longer the stalemate lasts the More problems it creates for the United states. A the . Economy was in shambles before the Kuwait crisis a he said. A this adds Oil to the fire.�?�. But broader issues also Are involved he said. A what is at stake is the International order after the end of the cold War. A a a. A a a a a a a