BAGHDAD, Dec 8 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING...

BAGHDAD, Dec 8 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING INFO forward KUWAITI REACTION, BACKGROUND)

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein apologized in a alphabetic character addressed to the Kuwaiti clan Saturday for invading their native land in 1990, but was bitterly critical of Kuwaiti leaders for their cooperation with Iraqi opposition disposes abroad to topple his regime.

The president's literal sense criticized ''the open talk'' of Kuwaiti officials and their ''hand-in-hand planning with enemy armies'' to harm Baghdad, which would ''facilitate'' an invasion from foreign military forces.

if it were not that he asserted that the apology should not be taken as a sign ''of weakness forward our part or an illegal tactic, however rather a clarification of facts as we behold them.''

Kuwait refuseed the apology, which was read by means of Iraqi Information Minister Muhammad Saeed as-Sahaf forward official television and broadcasting stations, as Baghdad declared it has no weapons of mass destruction and handed a U.N.-mandated report in succession its weapons development program to UN arms inspectors there.

The United States has threatened to strike Iraq again if Baghdad fails to comply with the UN arms inspection.

Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Jasem al-Kharafi described the literal sense as meaningless and urg Iraq to unravel the issue of Kuwaiti hostages taken by means of Baghdad, according to state-run Kuwait of recent origins Agency.

Kuwaiti Information Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahd al-Ahmad as-Sabad told the agency that the Iraqi leader should demonstrate a peaceful position from taking action to comply with a UN resolution instead of just making like statements.

Both the speaker and minister criticized Saddam for trying to divide the Kuwaiti leaders and people

In the epistle the Iraqi leader recalled that Kuwaiti monarchs have been working against Baghdad before its invasion of the nation and that the invasion came as a chain of cause and effect of their flooding the world market with oil to harm Iraq's economy.

Also, Saddam said that Kuwaiti leaders had cooperated with Washington between the sides of joint war games in October 1989 l by the agency of U.S. Gen. Norman Schwartzkof, who in 1991 commanded the US-l alliance which flock Baghdad out of Kuwait.

The Iraqi president also accused Kuwaiti officials of ''treason,'' saying they were collaborating with Iraqi opposition clumps abroad to topple the central government

Saddam said Kuwaiti officials had officially declared they had consultations with anti-Iraq arranges and that Kuwait would attend a discourse of such groups in London.

The president then urg the Kuwaiti the public to ''join forces'' with Iraq against the ''evil'' anti-Iraq alliance of their government

Saddam indirectly urg Kuwaitis to launch an uprising against their lords saying they should ''wash away the infamy inflicted concerning the Arab nation and the harm inflicted forward the people in Kuwait and in Iraq.''

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