European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Rendered in Kuwait trials by Luke Mutt staff writer Kuwait City an iraqi charged with wearing a Saddam Hussein to shirt on the Day Kuwait City was liberated was sentenced to 15 years in prison sunday As the Oil emirate began trials of people accused of collaboration Adnan Abed Hassan Ali who said he had gotten the shirt at a school he attended before the aug. 2 invasion Hung his head and grabbed the bars of the Cage surrounding the defendants As the verdict was read. Several spectators gasped audibly. A six other men were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 13 years after the courts five judges deliberated less than 2vi hours. Four people were acquitted and nine cases were delayed pending further investigation. Only 12 of the accused which included jordanians palestinians iraqis and an egyptian were on hand for the trial. Defense attorneys for the accused repeatedly complained that the process was not fair because witnesses and evidence against the accused were not presented publicly. None of the witnesses were in court sunday and the attorneys asked the judges several times How they were expected to defend clients against a ghost All 20 cases were heard in less than two hours. Under martial Law declared after Kuwait a feb. 26 liberation there is no Chance for Appeal. Crown Prince Sand Abdullah Al Sabah. Named As governor under martial Law will review the sentences. A most of the defendants said they had not seen an attorney before entering the courtroom. Three lawyers who were pc sent to represent some of the accused were ordered to speak for those who were without representation. In those cases the attorneys were not permitted a look at the files of their new clients. One iraqi charged with Possession of ammunition for haying a key Chain with a Bullet casing dangling on it was defended by a lawyer appointed on the spot asked to speak in the Man s defense the defense attorney told the court to a just have t the defendant received two years on the charge. Another iraqi Subah Hassin Shn Khi was accused of holding parties for iraqi soldiers possessing a weapon unspecified incidents of collaboration. He received a 13-year sentence. The judge said that All those sentenced to jail terms would be deported upon their release from prison. The Only woman in the court sunday Jas Mia Mohammed Salmen was accused of leading iraqi soldiers to the apartment of kuwaiti resistance fighters. Her Case was delayed until saturday More cases will be heard shelter an iraqi guard looks through a Hole on sunday in a bomb shelter in am cried a Middle class residential District of Baghdad on feb. 13, Allied missiles hit the shelter killing 400 to 500 civilians . Officials said they Don t know Why civilians were at the location As the site was an iraqi military command and control Bunker and had been a an Active target for some time. Over Success by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau. Washington a in Wake of the persian Gulf War a number of critics Are contending that the army a Patriot missile which enthralled the world during its arcing Aerial assaults on iraqi scuds was overrated. Or was it recent attacks aimed at the Patriot include assertions that it too often failed to hit scud warheads that the army has tried to make it look better by broadening its definition of a successful intercept and that damage to israeli cities actually increased after the system was deployed there. But the army and officials with Raythelon corp. Of Lexington mass., the missiles manufacturer said judgments based on the israeli exp Cri see patriots on Page 10 Washington a without fanfare the United states has begun to shift thousands of troops out of the Pacific defense department sources say. In the first phase of the reductions nearly 14,000 . Troops will be withdrawn from Japan South Korea and the Philippines by the end of l j92, according to a senior defense official speaking on condition of anonymity. A a its already started a the said the United states has about 50,000 service members posted in Japan 44,000 in South Korea and 14,800 in the Philippines. There arc about 25,800 Navy and Marine personnel on ships in the Region. Seven thousand personnel will be removed from South Korea 5,000 from Japan and 2,000 from the Philippines. The majority of those withdrawn will he support than combat troops the official defense Secretary Dick Cheney went to Japan South Korea and the Philippines last year to propose the reductions the Mere hint of such a move shocked military and government officials who had grown accustomed to the tens of thousands of . Troops maintaining a presence in the Ere tired of being the 911 number for the world free of charge.�?T. I rep. Patricia Schroeder since then the United Stales has worked to assure those allies that Washington wont abandon its friends a lesson bolstered by t he persian Gulf War t he official said. A a if anybody Learned a lesson from the persian Gull War it was North Korea a the official said. Quot they la think twice about storming across file Border Quot into the territory of an american ally. Hie nations in the Region were consulted throughout the process Quot to give them Confidence that we won t just do this unilaterally a the official Friendly nations in the Region such troops on Page 10
