TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 54

UNCLAS KUWAIT 001451 SIPDIS DEPT ALSO FOR USAID DCHA/OFDA GENEVA FOR UNDRO AND LRCS USCINCCENT ALSO FOR POLAD E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU SUBJECT: TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 54 REF: KUWAIT 1420 AND PREVIOUS ¶1. SITREP NO. 54 AS OF 1800 HOURS LOCAL, 1100 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 15, 2003. ¶2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): -------------- Security/Military -------------- 1030 Call received from a Kuwaiti man whose brother is employed as a contract linguist with the US military. The family is worried about him since they have not heard from him, and would like to know that he is well. Per advice of Embassy military office, family was instructed to contact the Kuwait Ministry of Defense. -------------- Political -------------- NSTR -------------- Consular -------------- 0800 Contacted by Task Force for update on status on a critically burned 12 year old boy, in Saddam City Hospital. Embassy had no information on the case, and this fact was reported to Task Force. 1745 Contacted by a reporter with an ABC Affiliate in Houston, TX. He claims his colleague is stuck trying to get back into Kuwait from Iraq with an Iraqi child. Matter referred to Consular section. Consular section contacted Save the Children which advised that the stranded reporter should deliver the child to the British Civil Affairs authority in Umm Qasr, where the child could be properly cared for until a humanitarian assistance agency could assume his care and assist in identifying him and possibly returning him to Baghdad. -------------- Management -------------- NSTR -------------- Public Affairs -------------- NSTR ¶3. COMMENTS: None ¶4. STATUS OF PENDING REQUESTS: N/A. JONES