World IN BRIEF : KUWAIT : Hangings Sought for War Crimes
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Kuwaiti government will seek to hang most of the 600 Iraqi, Palestinian and other prisoners being held for alleged war crimes, a prosecutor said. The government will also try in absentia hundreds of Iraqi officers who fled Kuwait as allied forces closed in, said Khalid Mudaf, a Justice Ministry official who will head the prosecutions.
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