| A cable released by the Wikileaks regarding a 1990 meeting between former US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie and former dictator Saddam Hussein, merely confirms the idea that Washington had encouraged Baghdad to invade Kuwait, says a London-based research organization. The document "does not come as a surprise in news; however, it comes as a confirmation of the news that at the time, was either disputed or denied by the American administration," Anas Al-Tikriti, the CEO of the Cordoba Foundation, told Press TV's US Desk. A newly released document by Wikileaks reveals the content of a meeting between Glaspie and Saddam which took place on July 25, 1990 -- just a week before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The ambassador assured Saddam of former President George H. Bush's friendship saying the US did not take any position on the border dispute between Iraq and Kuwait. "The only thing that one could imagine is that basically there was someone or a group within the administration that actually wanted a conflict to arise between Iraq and Kuwait," Tikriti, noted. Given Iraq's desperate financial situation and Kuwait's refusal to cover Iraq's losses from its war with Iran "The American administration realized that something was going to give and that the situation was leading toward a conflict," he said. |
