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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43935)	4/1/2003 6:13:12 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Liberation or an invasion? Reminiscences from the 1st Gulf War I remembered an incident related to me by a Kuwaiti friend of Samira, Khaled Sumait, who works in a Kuwaiti financial institution. It was a touching story that occurred in the 1st Gulf War. After the war was won, two weeks into the cease fire, the Iraqi had re-captured Khafji. It was an intrusion which was repulsed swiftly by the coalition of 1991. Once the coalition forces flushed out the Iraqis, they asked the Arab garrisons to run Khafji. When the garrisons entered Khafji, one of the Kuwaiti soldiers saw a limping dog. He did not like the sight of a miserable wounded stray dog and hit it with a big boulder. In the evening as the garrison re-assembled, Khaled Sumait saw that two American soldiers had the limping dog in their laps. The broken leg was bandaged and another American soldier was giving some water with his own canteen. According to Khaled Sumait, a nation that respects the life of an Arab dog, more so than Arabs did, would certainly not treat the Arabs of Basra or Iraq badly. The whole story and myth of Arabs being enslaved according to Khaled is a saga of missed opportunities.