Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 991

The Iraqi Popular Army is not considered part of the Iraqi armed forces. Its true nature: an armed popular organisation established by the enemy with the intention of assisting it. The effect thereof. Those joining it fall outside the category of prisoners of war provided for in the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Joining it constitutes the offence of assisting the enemy and intervening in the interest of the hostile State of Iraq in a measure capable of weakening citizens’ morale.