ARAB TIMES (Kuwait): Iraqi officials will be tried as war criminals

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Iraqi officials will be tried as war criminals: Prosper

KUWAIT, (KUNA): An official from the US State Department confirmed Saturday that a judicial mechanism will be put in place to pursue former Iraqi officials who have caused great damage to Kuwait. He also indicated they would be tried as war criminals. The Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the US State Department, Pierre-Richard Prosper, told journalists in Kuwait after a meeting with a number of Kuwaiti officials from the National Committee for Missing and POWs Affairs (NCMPA), that his visit to Kuwait is aimed at discussing the issue of the Kuwaiti POWs and missing and to obtain sufficient information on this issue.

"The American officials realize the importance of closing this file and arriving at the right answer on the fate of the Kuwaiti POWs," the American official pointed out. He added his visit also aims at arriving at a mechanism to accelerate the procedure related to the issue of the Kuwaiti detainees in Guantanamo, and to know whether they will be released or stand trial.

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