US May Force Kuwait to Cede Territory to Iraq: Ex-Minister

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US May Force Kuwait to Cede Territory to Iraq: Ex-Minister
Agence France Presse

KUWAIT CITY, 8 July 2004 — An influential member of Kuwait’s ruling family and former minister yesterday expressed concern the United States may coerce the emirate into making territorial concessions to Iraq as part of a new regional order.

“I am afraid that Iraq’s new order may be arranged at our expense. The Americans may impose it on us,” former Oil Minister Sheikh Saud Nasser Al-Sabah told Al-Seyassah daily in an interview.

“I am afraid that someone may come tomorrow to say that the issue of Umm Qasr (port) and Bubiyan and Warba (islands) needs to be reviewed. This time the request will not come from Iraq. It may come from the Americans,” the former official said.

“Now, we should expect the unexpected, because (major) events may take place in this region,” added the pro-American former official who was Kuwait’s ambassador to Washington during the 1990-91 Iraqi invasion and the Gulf War.


http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=47977&d=8&m=7&y=2004

How would this be for irony, if Kuwait had to turn over to Iraq the land that Saddam wanted. Lily Tomlin was right. (see below)