Kuwaiti officials scorn Baghdad's return of missing items

Monday, December 23, 2002

KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwait scorned Iraq's return of paintings, swords and other cultural items missing since Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion, dismissing it Sunday as a public relations ploy.

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