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Article: War criminals face prosecution in U.S.: President Bush wants war criminals, including those from the 1991 gulf war, judged severely, but where they will be tried and by whom remains a subject of debate. (The world: war crimes).
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- Insight on the News
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- April 29, 2003
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President George W. Bush has vowed that his administration will prosecute war criminals. His father made similar promises during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, but not a single Iraqi was prosecuted. The reason? The Iraqis responsible for the 1991 war crimes never came under coalition control, so there were no trials. That let 500 alleged Iraqi war criminals off the hook, according to a 14-page Pentagon report recently made public.
Among atrocities cited in the report is the controversial account of 120 Kuwaiti infants removed from incubators by Iraqi soldiers and left to die. Initially, Amnesty International expressed doubts about the validity of this story that ...