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a1st}reported this weëk that the station
was a C.I.A.-backéd operation.
President Bush signed a,secret order
, authorizing the C.I.A. to undertake psy::
chological warfare operations against
the Hussein Government and its army
in Kuwait last fall, Administration offi.
cials said early this year. It could not
be learned whether that order covered
measures like opposition radio broad.
'casts.
, In recent years, the C.I.A. has consid.
ered or begun opposition radio station~
,in hotspots like Panama, Libya and
Iran. The United States and Saudi Ara.
bia also have a history of collaboration
Ion intelligence operations, and C.I.A.
'officers in Riyadh and Jidda some.
times have developed close relation.,
:ships with the royal family.th~re.
, 'SaudI' Funds for CJX'Efförts
The Saudi family provided millions
of dollars ta finance the operations 01
anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua in
the mid-1980's, when American assist.
ance was banned by Congress. Saudi
Arabia also has spent billions in the
last decade to support the C.I.A.-
backed guerrilla war in Afghanistan.
Dr. Hiwaizi, an official of the British.
Kurdish Friends Society, said he was
asked in late January by intelligence
officials and diplomats at Saudi Arabia's
Embassy in London. to visit the
Voice of Free Iraq. He said he and several
Kurdish friends were escorted to
the station in late February during a,
'trip made to discus's the Iraqi situation
With members of the Saudi royal fami-
:ly. ,
One of the station's principal managers,
.he said, is IbrJi~im al-ZjJbaidi, a
former head of Iraqi state radja whb
worked in the United States before re~'
turning to the Middle East to help' set'
'up the radio station. BBC reports indi.:
'tate that Mr. Zubaidi has also broad-'
~ast appeals for Iraqis to revolt against
the Hussein Government. .
In a broadcast on March 22, Mr. Zub",
aidi said: "The revolution of the Iraqis:
is not Shiite or Kurdish. It is a true'
Iraqi revolution in which all IraqiS are,
participating without exception -
Arabs and Kurds, Muslims and Chris"
tians, Shiites and Sunnis."
A second chief manager, is Salah
Omar al-Ali, a relative of President
Hussein and Iraq's Minister of Information
in the early 1980's. Mr. Ali fled
to London last year, Dr. Hiwaizi said.
Dr. Hiwaizi said his delegation of
Iraqi expatriates wasassembled by
Saudi officials and visited Saudi Arabia
from Feb. 20to March 2.
U.N .V'otes to Condemn
Handling of Iraq Rebels
By PAUL LEWIS
SpeciallO The New York Times,
: UNITED NAnONS, April 5 - The; thé Iraqi'people and to report agai~ tQ
Security Council voted tonight to ~on-: the ~o~ncil, if neces~ary.~fter sen~1Og
demn President Saddam Husse1O'sj a mission to the regIOn, on the phg~t
reppression of the Iraqi Kurds and of\ of t~e Iraqi civilian pop.ulation, an~ U1
other civilian groups and asked the l particular on the Kurdish populatIOn,
Secretary General to investigate theiri 'suffering from the repression in all its
plight.
: In a resolution approved
1
10 to 3, thej
.forms
ties."
inflicted by the Iraqi authori~
.Council dismissed Iraq's objection that, Turkey's United Nations representa-
Jts handling of the Kurdish and Shiite: tive, Mustafa Aksin, said 100,000refu-
Muslim insurgencies was an internal;gees.lncïuding Kurds, Arabs and Turaffair,
saying the wave of refugees. cpinahS, had crossed into Turk~y and
flowing toward neighbo~ing Tu.rkey' that änother 600,000 were head10g for
:and Iran threatens "1OternatlOnal the'Turkish border.
peace and security." Iran's 'representative, Kamal Khar-
Never before has the United Nations razi, said that 110,000 Iraqis have al-
Security Councilheld that govern. ready struggled into Iran in search of
ments threaten international securi~y
if their actions force thousands of their'
safety and that the Te~eran G~>ve~n-
ment believes that the figure will rise
citizens to flee to other lands.
to half a million in the next few days.
, Cuba, which has large refugee,popu- Iraq Sees 'Interference'
;lations in the United States, opposed .' .
'the measure. Yemen and Zimbabwe Iraq's representative, Ab~ul ~mlr
also voted no, while China and India ab; "al-A~bari, called }J:1e r~solutlon , b~a-
'stained. Those opposed attacked the tant 1Oterf~rence I!, hiS c~unt~ s 10-
measure on the principle of non-inter~ ternal a.ff8;lrsand ~ald Ir~q ~neighbors
ference in the internal affairs of na" were stlrr10g up dlsse~t 1Os!deIraq be.
tions, a basic tenet of internationallaw, ,cause they p~anto partition It. .'
'and diplomacy. ' , But speak10g for France, ~hlch led
the drive for the new resolution, Jean.
End to Crackdown Demanded Marc Rochereau de la Sablière, the
The new resolution calls for an im~ deputy representative, pointed out thai
mediate end to the Iraqi crackdown the United Nations is charged with
and expresses the hope that "an open ."saving future generations from thE:
dialogue will take place to insure thai scourgeof war."
the human and political rights of all He said the resolution was "the mini:
Iraqi citizens are respected." 'mum" the international community
It insists that Iraq allow interna. could do to meet its obligation under
tional humanitarian organizatiDns full the United Nations Charter to prevent
access to all Iraqis in need of assist. war and insure respect of human
ance, and it asks Secretary General Ja. rights. '
--'v-'-'ie~r Pérez de,CuéUar to continue to aid Dilllom!lts said that by describin8
'thé refugee exodus fioînIraq asa
,threat to peace and security, the Court.
cil had made it unlikely that its trade
sanctions against Iraq could be lifted
while the present situation continues,
even if Baghdad complies with all it~
other demands for a cease-fire.
Iraq Invites U.N. Team
The Council has already said thaI
Iraq must be in compliance with thE
terms of all its gulf resolutions beforE:
.sanctions are lifted. The restoration 01
peace and security in the region is onE
of the demands stated in the earlier
resolutions.
'
Nevertheless, several members
were reluctant to criticize Iraq as lon@
as there was no international impact
from Baghdad's handling of the rebel:
lions. _'" , .
In an effort to forestall teday's reso.
lution, Mr. Anbari invited Mr. Pérez de
Cuéllar to send a team to assess the hu,
manitarian needs of the Iraqi papula.
tion.
'
Mr. Anbari also told the Secretary
General that President Hussein would
reply on Sunday or Monday to ~he
Council's new peace proposal, which
offers cease-fire and the withdrawal 01
American forces from southern Iraq if
Mr. Hussein agrees to allow his weap.
'orisof mass destruction to be destroyed
'arid pay compensation for the invasion
of Kuwait. .
.. The Iraqi representative said Bagh~
dad was ready to accept the military
observer force along its border witn
K.ùwait 'provided for in the new peace
offer. Once this is in effect, the allies
say they will withdraw their forces
.from southern Iraq. ,
But he said Iraq did not want any at
the countries that made war against il
la send military advisers to the Iraq!
I$ideof this frontier. The United States,
Britain and France, the three mai"
Western members of the coalition thai
defeated Iraq, have agreed to contrib~
u.te_troopSlo_the_peacekeeQing,~f",or,-,c,-"e,,-.
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