European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 22, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3stories of iraqi atrocities questioned but Kuwait maintains babies pulled from incubators Kuwait apr despite investigations by human rights groups and . Media casting doubt on the claim Kuwait says it can prove that iraqi occupation troops removed babies from incubators leaving them to die. A it did happen. I did no to see it myself but we have witnesses and proof that it happened a or. Suleiman Al Ali assistant undersecretary for the ministry of health said monday. The ministry will soon Issue a report documenting the charge said Al Ali who was in Kuwait during the seven month occupation. There is ample evidence of other iraqi atrocities during the period summary executions of civilians torture of resistance members and the rape of kuwaiti and foreign women. Also monday medical student Khalil Mataki told the associated press that during the occupation he saw an iraqi pull seven infants from incubators at the maternity Hospital in Kuwait City. In addition a physician who worked at the Hospital or. Abdulla Al Hamadi said he helped dispose of the bodies of 35 babies who died for Lack of incubators. Weekend reports by Abc and lbs suggested the initial report of the alleged incubator atrocity 15 months ago was simply part of a multimillion Dollar Campaign to a a sell the persian Gulf War to the american Public. A the evidence Points to the stories about the incubators being fabricated a Andrew Whitley executive director of the human rights group Middle East watch said monday. A a we a like to see the  the Story was first told to the american people by a 15-year-old kuwaiti girl speaking to a televised session of the congressiona.1 human rights caucus on oct. 10, 1990. The girl identified Only As Nazirah tearfully said she saw iraqi soldiers take the incubators and leave the computer rated world s fastest Tokyo a Nec corp. On tuesday introduced a new supercomputer that it says is the worlds fastest. The new sx-3 44r has a sequential computation Speed of 25.6 gig flops or 25.6 billion calculations a second the company said. That exceeds the Peak Speed of 24 gig flops of the top Model of the leading . Maker Cray research inc., it added. A Cray spokesman conceded that the new Nec series has a higher Peak Speed but said a More significant indicator was parallel computation Speed in which he said Crays top Model is five times faster that necks. Necks super Speed Model is part of the sx-3 r series going on Sale in september to replace its current top of the line sx-3 series the company said. Nec officials had no immediate list prices for the 10 models of the sx-3 r series but said they would be rented to japanese customers at prices ranging from 26 million to 100 million yen $210,000 to $810,000 a month. Tadashi Watanabe necks head of supercomputer sales said the company noped to sell 50 computers from the new series in Japan and 30 abroad. Just the wrong time to have it his Way St. Louis apr officers were surprised to find Thomas Hall at the Back door of the police station. Hall was surprised himself. He thought he was at Burger King. The 38-year-old Man was arrested and charged with Drunken driving monday after pulling up to what he thought was the drive through window and placing an order authorities said. At the other end of the intercom was a booking clerk. Children a to die on the cold floor. It was  the Story was repeatedly cited by president Bush and helped galvanize american support for sending troops to drive iraqi forces out of Kuwait. But investigations carried out by human rights groups As Well As news organizations including lbs and Abc news raised questions about whether the claim was anything More than kuwaiti financed War propaganda. The kuwaiti girls appearance before Congress was coordinated by the new York Public relations company the evidence Points to the stories about the incubators being fabricated. Wed like to see the proof a Andrew Whitley Hill and Knowlton which was hired by a group called citizens for a free Kuwait. Lbs said the group was financed almost entirely by a contribution of $11,852,229 from the kuwaiti government. A Hill and Knowlton senior vice president Tom Ross on monday called the company apr Effort a a Normal information campaigns and said there was no reason to doubt the girls Story. Middle East watch based in new York last year spent 18 Days visiting hospitals and interviewing dozens of doctors and nurses about the claims. Whaley said monday that he and a colleague found nothing in the investigation to confirm that iraqi soldiers had taken babies from incubators. Amnesty International another human rights group reached a similar conclusion after conducting its own investigation. The publisher of harpers Magazine John r. Mac Arthur disclosed in a commentary in the new York times this month that Nazirah is the daughter of Kuwait a ambassador to the United states and a member of the Royal family. The kuwaiti government stood by her account. Mataki 26, said he was a Volunteer worker in the Al Sabah maternity Hospital when he saw the iraqis dump babies out of incubators. Nazirah said babies were removed from incubators at Al Adan Hospital South of Kuwait City. Interviewed in Kuwait City Mataki said he was alone in the room in september 1990 when an iraqi wearing a White Smock walked in with a letter from the iraqi health minister requesting him to ship All excess medical equipment to Iraq. A when he finished collecting the empty ones he headed toward the ones that had infants in them a Mataki said. A when i tried to Tell him that he  do this to these human beings he said a do you really believe you Are human beings a a Mataki said. The medical intern said when he realized that there was nothing he could do to Stop the Man he opened the incubator sheltering the first baby girl he delivered in the Hospital. He took her to her parents who were in the Hospital at the time and suggested that they quickly Transfer her to another Hospital. A but Little Fatima died upon our arrival at Mubarak Hospital. I broke Down and cried a Mataki said. A that baby meant a lot to  year of the Monkey a Model of a Monkey holding a bowl of peaches a chinese Symbol of longevity sits outside a Bank in Hong Kong on tuesday. The Model symbolizes the chinese lunar new year of the Monkey which begins feb. 4, replacing the year of the sheep