- Ilam, Jan 22, IRNA -- The Prague based Radio Free Iraq (FRI),
monitored here, announced on Wednesday night that Baghdad regime has
executed three of the Kuwaiti POWs, taken captive during the 1991
occupation of their country.
The RFI added that the three executed Kuwaiti POWs, Abdul-Hussain
al-Salimi, Muhammad al-Najjar, and Rashed al-Ahmadi, were all experts
in military industries, and employed in Iraq's "secret military
industries". They were apparently executed for fear they would be
located by inspectors.
According to the said radio, the executed Kuwaiti POWs' expertise
was taken advantage of at Iraq's Ain Shams Desert, and Samarra
military industries for nearly a decade mainly in chemical and biological
weapons development.
Without referring to the aformentioned reason for the execution of the three
Kuwaiti POWs, the RFI reporter added, "prior to their inhumane
execution, the Kuwaiti POWs were transferred and kept for a short
while at Iraq's Karkh Camp.
The Iraqi officials had several times announced they have no
Kuwaiti POWs in their soil, but Kuwait, rejecting Baghdad's claim in
that regard has always insisted that 636 Kuwaiti POWs are still
imprisoned in secret cells in remote and different parts of Iraq.
According to another report by the FRI, Abu Muhammad al-Mesri, one
of the prominent leaders of Ansar-ul-Islam -- one of the groups
supported by Al-Qaeda-- leading a group of his party members, met and
conferred with the Deputy Head of the Revolutionary Council of Iraq,
Ezzat al-Dowri on Wednesday.
RFI claimed that al-Mesri is a prominent advisor of Al Qaeda's
second influential figure after Osama bin Laden, Abul-Yamin
al-Mazaheri in Al-Dour region of Takrit city, located in Salahedding
Province. The two sides exchanged viewpoints on the tactics to be
employed in Baghdad-Al Qaeda cooperation, according to the RFI.
The said radio claimed that Iraq's cooperation with Al Qaeda is
focussed on anti-US and other western forces operations and personnel
across the Arab world and in all Islamic countries.
Despite the vast recent western media propagation of Baghdad-Al
Qaeda relations, the United Nations announced on Tuesday that the
UNMOVIC officers have in their nearly two month inspections in Iraq
found no trace of the existence of ties between them.
NA/JB
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