The Kuwaiti daily “al-Qabas” yesterday said that - according to well-informed Iraqi sources - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is seeking to revive an offer the U.S. administration proposed to him in 1991 but his efforts are blocked by the unwillingness of the Bush administration to reconcile with his regime..
Al-Qabas added that the U.S. had then asked Iraq, in the second half of 1991 and through the late Moroccan King al-Hassan II, to send a special envoy to Morocco to discuss American preconditions to settle the Iraqi issue. The envoy would be a member of the Saddam Hussein family and Hassan Abdul Miguid, Saddam's cousin was delegated and met with a high ranking official at the CIA.
The CIA official informed the Iraqi envoy that Washington wants to close the file on the past but with conditions, the first of which were to dismantle the mass destruction weapons, founding a monitoring system for Iraqi armaments, establishing normal relations with Israel and accepting the settlement of Palestinian refugees. Saddam Hussein had refused these American conditions.
Al-Qabas added that the U.S. had then asked Iraq, in the second half of 1991 and through the late Moroccan King al-Hassan II, to send a special envoy to Morocco to discuss American preconditions to settle the Iraqi issue. The envoy would be a member of the Saddam Hussein family and Hassan Abdul Miguid, Saddam's cousin was delegated and met with a high ranking official at the CIA.
The CIA official informed the Iraqi envoy that Washington wants to close the file on the past but with conditions, the first of which were to dismantle the mass destruction weapons, founding a monitoring system for Iraqi armaments, establishing normal relations with Israel and accepting the settlement of Palestinian refugees. Saddam Hussein had refused these American conditions.