Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
90KUWAIT4818
1990-08-25 11:29:00
SECRET
Embassy Kuwait
Cable title:  

TFKUO1: TIGHTENING THE NOOSE ON IRAQ

Tags:  CASC IZ KU MOPS PINS PREL SHUM SREF UNSC 
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O 251129Z AUG 90
FM AMEMBASSY KUWAIT
TO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 1013
S E C R E T KUWAIT 04818 

E.O. 12356 DECL: OADR
TAGS:PREL, MOPS, CASC, PINS, SHUM, SREF, KU, IZ, UNSC
SUBJECT:TFKUO1: TIGHTENING THE NOOSE ON IRAQ

S E C R E T KUWAIT 04818

E.O. 12356 DECL: OADR
TAGS:PREL, MOPS, CASC, PINS, SHUM, SREF, KU, IZ, UNSC
SUBJECT:TFKUO1: TIGHTENING THE NOOSE ON IRAQ

1. SECRET - ENTIRE TEXT

2. NOW THAT WE HAVE OBTAINED UNSC RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE
USE OF FORCE TO ENFORCE THE SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ, I PRESUME
THAT IT WOULD BE USEFUL TO KEEP THE UNSC ACTIVELY ENGAGED AND
RATCHET UP THE REAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PRESSURE ON IRAQ AT THE
SAME TIME. FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, IT APPEARS THAT THIS MIGHT BE
DONE BY BEGINNING TO SET UP MECHANISMS TO HOLD THE GOI AND
IDENTIFIABLE GOI OFFICIALS COLLECTIVELY AND INDIVIDUALLY
RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE LAW OF
NATIONS AND SPECIFIC UNSC RESOLUTIONS.

3. AS A FIRST CUT, IT SEEMS FROM HERE THAT WE MIGHT CONSIDER
TWO DISTINCT TRACKS SEPERATELY OR IN TANDEM:

-- CRIMES AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW, HUMANITY AND WAR CRIMES:
THE FIRST TRACK WOULD BE A TRIBUNAL, BASED UPON THE
NUREMBURG PRECENDENT, TO TRY PERSONS CRIMINALLY WHO
FORMULATE, PUBLICIZE, IMPLEMENT OR JUSTIFY ACTIONS IN
CONTRAVENTION OF POSITIVE INTERNATIONAL LAW AND NORMS OF
COMITY. THE TREATMENT OF FOREIGN NATIONALS IN IRAQ AND
IRAQI-OCCUPIED KUWAIT, AGAINST KUWAITIS AS A RESULT OF
THE IRAQI AGGRESSION, FORCED LABOR, DENIAL OF CRITICAL
MEDICAL CARE AND TREATMENT, ETC. WOULD FALL WITHIN THIS
CATEGORY.

-- REPARATIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF KUWAIT, FOREIGN
GOVERNMENTS AND PRIVATE KUWAITI AND FOREIGN CITIZENS FOR
LOSSES, THEFT, WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT, ETC. SUCH ACTIVITY
WOULD HELP TO DRIVE HOME TO THE IRAQI REGIME THAT THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT ONLY WILL NOT PERMIT IT TO RETAIN
OR BENEFIT FROM ITS AGGRESSION AGAINST KUWAIT, BUT WILL HOLD IT
LIABLE FOR THE FINANCIAL AND OTHER HARM DONE BY ITS ANNOUNCED
POLICIES. IT WOULD ALSO LAY THE BASIS FOR THE USG, AND OTHER
GOVERNMENTS, TO RECOVER COSTS OF DESTRUCTION, EVACUATION, ETC.
AND GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL AND PRIVATE CITIZENS TO RECOVER LOSSES
OF PERSONAL PROPERTY RESULTING FROM THE IRAQI INVASION.


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