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- <text id=93TT1013>
- <title>
- Feb. 22, 1993: Human Collateral
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 22, 1993 Uncle Bill Wants You
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- WORLD
- Human Collateral
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Baghdad offers to barter two captured Britons for cash
- </p>
- <p> They are, by their own credible accounts, two ordinary Britons
- tripped up by circumstances. Paul Ride, 33, a catering manager
- employed in Kuwait, says he was forced into Iraq by soldiers
- during a business trip near the border. Michael Wainwright,
- 41, claims he was admitted to Kurdistan by Iraqi guards while
- visiting Turkey. Both are now serving long terms for illegal
- entry, and Iraq has tied their fate to a payoff demanded of
- the British government growing out of the Gulf War.
- </p>
- <p> As relatives were permitted to visit the two in a Baghdad prison,
- Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz hinted that the impasse
- might be resolved speedily "if the British government shows
- sympathy toward the hardship of the Iraqi people." Translation:
- Britain must free $923 million in Iraqi assets frozen since
- Desert Storm. London has signaled no deal, vowing to keep the
- funds until Iraq meets United Nations-mandated disarmament and
- political guidelines. Ride and Wainwright remain hostages.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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