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Editorial: Finding Kuwait’s Missing National ArchivesPosted: January 23, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
Tags: City University of New York School of Law, Iraq, kuwait, Kuwaiti, Politics of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, UN Security Council, United Nations Security Council JURIST
Guest Columnist Douglas Cox of the City University of New York School of Law says that the Kuwaiti national archives, which were taken by Iraqi forces in 1990, have still not been returned and keep the post-Saddam Iraq under a UN Security Council resolution aimed at having the documents returned…
As the final US military convoy left Iraqi territory last month, the US, along with other members of the UN Security Council, criticized Iraq’s lack of progress in locating Kuwaiti national archives — the historical records of the nation — that disappeared during Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion.
The issue of the missing Kuwaiti archives is crucial because it remains a central factor keeping the new Iraqi government under the thumb of Security Council Resolution 686, now more than two decades old, that was focused on Saddam’s regime. Yet the most promising place to find new leads in the cold case of the missing archives is clear — the records of Saddam’s government. Why hasn’t Iraq yet reviewed these documents? Because the US still has them and continues to withhold them from Iraq.
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Tags: City University of New York School of Law, Iraq, kuwait, Kuwaiti, Politics of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, UN Security Council, United Nations Security Council JURIST
Guest Columnist Douglas Cox of the City University of New York School of Law says that the Kuwaiti national archives, which were taken by Iraqi forces in 1990, have still not been returned and keep the post-Saddam Iraq under a UN Security Council resolution aimed at having the documents returned…
As the final US military convoy left Iraqi territory last month, the US, along with other members of the UN Security Council, criticized Iraq’s lack of progress in locating Kuwaiti national archives — the historical records of the nation — that disappeared during Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion.
The issue of the missing Kuwaiti archives is crucial because it remains a central factor keeping the new Iraqi government under the thumb of Security Council Resolution 686, now more than two decades old, that was focused on Saddam’s regime. Yet the most promising place to find new leads in the cold case of the missing archives is clear — the records of Saddam’s government. Why hasn’t Iraq yet reviewed these documents? Because the US still has them and continues to withhold them from Iraq.
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