According to an Oct. 16, 2002 Los Angeles Times article:
A dozen Kuwaiti captives have mounted the first organized legal and diplomatic effort by prisoners at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay to challenge U.S. policy that holds terrorism suspects indefinitely without court hearings or charges being filed against them.
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The 12 captives contend they are not members of Al Qaeda or the Taliban, but charity workers who were assisting refugees of Afghanistan's harsh regime when they were caught up in the chaos of the war last fall and winter. In attempting to flee across the Pakistani border, they say, they fell into the hands of Pakistanis who "sold" them to U.S. troops, collecting a bounty that American forces were offering for Arab terrorism suspects captured in the region.<snip>
The families of most of the 12 have collected documents that suggest the men were indeed working for charitable organizations in the Afghan region. They have won the support of top Kuwaiti officials and retained a Washington firm that specializes in international law.
The lawsuit by the men from Kuwait, and the backing of their government, is awkward for U.S. policymakers who expect Kuwaiti support in a war against Iraq and against terrorism generally.
http://www.underreported.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=314&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0Posted 4/18/2004 8:28 PM
"I think this is a big mistake," says Khalid al Odah, 52, who believes
his son was captured by bounty hunters while doing relief work and then sold to the U.S. military, which was offering rewards for al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-18-odah-case_x.htmFriday 18 March 2005, 2:56 Makka Time, 23:56 GMT
The days when a US Army truck could fill up for free at a petrol station in Kuwait are coming to an end.
Kuwait's energy minister on Thursday said US troops are going to have to start paying for fuel.
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"But now after the Iraqi elections ... we have to create a mechanism for payment," Energy Minister Ahmad Fahd al-Ahmad Al Sabah said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/34A8BB07-0771-42EE-896F-C1B61163ADC2.htmWednesday 16 March 2005,
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Al-Sana said that before and during the Iraq war, Kuwait supplied the US army with fuel worth $450 million free of charge, its contribution to the overthrow of the government of Saddam Hussein.
Supplies continued after the war and
the emirate recently demanded payment of $500 million after calculating the amount at a preferential price of $21 a barrel, al-Sana was quoted as saying.
DEFENCE PACT
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld responded with a tough-worded letter saying that Washington had liberated the emirate from Iraqi occupation in 1991, and because it enjoys a fiscal surplus there is no need to demand the payment.
Annoyed by the harsh response, the Kuwaiti government summoned US Ambassador Richard LeBaron in protest.
Later,
the US administration offered to pay $7 a barrel, al-Sana added.
Al-Sana's account was confirmed by the parliamentary source, who said Kuwait may soon dispatch its foreign and energy ministers to Washington to settle the dispute.
Some 25,000 US troops are stationed in Kuwait, which also served as a launchpad for the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
US-led forces in Iraq use the emirate as a transit point during rotations. They also use Kuwaiti ports, air and naval bases regularly almost free of charge.
Kuwait is tied in a 10-year defence pact with the United States which expires in 2012.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/350FB8C0-11C5-41A1-BC13-C493E891050B.htm?GUID={D3FD4127-696E-4BAE-983C-F334A6604624}
Kuwait Says It Will Start Charging The U.S. Military For Fuel
http://www.atsnn.com/story/127585.html