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"When someone encroaches your home, you feel the rage and hatred. We’re expatriates but we felt the same,” businessman Kaiomarz Mistry recalls the emotions of people in Kuwait when Iraq invaded the country in August 1990. To Mistry Kuwait had been home ever since his father Firoze started his business of specialized doors and loading systems in that country in 1977.  "As Indians we were not harmed,” he acknowledges, but he remembers the killing of locals and hunting down of westerners. "We passed through Iraq (en route to India) when escaping from Kuwait. Iraq was not modernized.” Saddam had spent the......