-Caveat Lector- >From ArabicNews.CoM Kuwaiti Arab League delegate: Iraq is a danger to the region Kuwait, Politics, 1/7/99 Kuwait's permanent delegate at the Arab League, ambassador Abdul al-Kenaei, stated that Iraq still threatens the area and not only Kuwait, pointing to the Iraqi information attack on some Arab states, whether Egypt or Jordan or the Arab League's secretary general. Following the talks he held with AL Secretary General Esmat Abdul Meguid, al-Kenaei said, "I made consultations with the league's secretary general regarding the general Arab situation and arrangements concerning convening a consultative meeting of Arab foreign ministers on January 24." He added, "I have assured to the secretary general Kuwait's adherence to the success of the consultative meeting for the Arab foreign ministers to come out with a joint vision regarding the current situation." ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blair in Kuwait on Saturday Kuwait, Politics, 1/7/99 A news bulletin by the British embassy in Kuwait said on Wednesday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair will visit Kuwait on Saturday where he will meet with the Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, Crown Prince Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah and high-ranking Kuwaiti officials. Blair will also visit a contingent of the British Royal Air Force which is composed of 12 Tornado planes at Ali al-Salem air base, in western Kuwait. In London, the AFP reported that the spokesman for the British Foreign Ministry had dismissed the idea that Blair's visit to Kuwait will be a provocation to Baghdad following two weeks of joint US-British air strikes on Baghdad. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Iranian daily: Kuwaiti police tortured Iranian workers Kuwait, Politics, 1/7/99 The Iranian daily Iran reported on Wednesday that 26 Iranian workers were exposed to torture by Kuwaiti policemen before they were deported to Iran. The paper said that the "Iranians were deported to Iran in a very miserable condition." The paper quoted a policeman as saying that one of the expelled workers, identified as Asfindiar Abdullah Zada, "had traces of torture on his hands and legs and he was stripped of his property." The paper added that Zada was detained for 13 months despite the fact that he had been legally employed in Kuwait for six years. The paper also quoted Iranian Judge Nasser Seraj as saying that from time to time groups of Iranian workers return to their country after being exposed to "physical and psychological torture by the Kuwaiti authorities." He added that his department had informed the Iranian Ministry of Labor, the judicial authority and the National Security Council about the "behavior of the Kuwaiti officials." Kuwait regularly announces the arrest of illegal workers who come from Iran. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Iraqi opposition member wants a Monarchy in Iraq Iraq, Politics, 1/7/99 Member of the Iraqi constitutional royal movement al-Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein has said that 98% of the Iraqi people want the royal system because monarchy is the best system to settle the crisis caused by the era under the Republican govenment. In a statement to the Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa published Monday, Bin al-Hussein added that among the "conditions set by the Iraqi constitutional Royal movement is that the Iraqi people decide in a direct and free referendum the system they want." He explained that the constitutional royal movement aims at giving a chance for the parties to work freely. He added that there is no current alternative to Saddam Hussein and fears of partitioning Iraq are not correct "because all Iraqis stress the unity of Iraq." He added that there is not even one Iraqi group that wants to partition Iraq and that rumors about that issue are the fabrication and the very creation of the Iraqi intelligence in order to frighten the region and provoke the illusion of such a threat in the circles of the Iraqi opposition. Al-Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein is 40. He has a kinship to the ruling royal family in Jordan. 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