Kuwait Marks Invasion Date

KUWAIT CITY — “Kuwait is free!” youths shouted Friday as they blared car horns. Yellow ribbons fluttered and red tracer bullets lit the early-morning skies, marking Kuwait’s freedom on the first anniversary of Baghdad’s invasion.

In neighborhood celebrations that broke out shortly after midnight, teen-agers and children danced in the streets. Machine guns were fired into a sky still veiled by the smoke of burning oil wells.

“We won’t forget what they did to us and to our people,” said Habib Ashur, who sprinkled rose water on the grave of a friend, a Kuwaiti army captain killed by the Iraqis. “We will not forgive, and we will not forget.”