Kammala wannan jumla: A shekara ta 2004, an yi zargin cewa Kuwait ta dakatar da ziyarar da Mahmoud Abbas ya shirya, sannan kuma jami'in PLO na biyu bayan shugaban Yasser Arafat. Jami'an Falasdinawa sun karyata rahotannin da aka bayar cewa wannan ya faru ne saboda rashin amincewar PLO don neman gafara game da goyon bayansa ga 1990
Harin da Iraki ta kai Kuwait. Duk da haka, a ranar 12 ga Disamba, 2004, Abbas, yanzu shugaban kungiyar PLO, ya nemi gafara saboda goyon bayan shugabannin Falasdinawa ga Iraki da Saddam Hussein a lokacin mamayewa da mamayewa. A ziyarar farko da wani babban jami'in Palasdinawa ya kai Kuwait tun bayan mamayar 1990, Abbas ya bayyana cewa: "Ina cewa mun ce eh, muna neman afuwa game da matsayinmu ga Kuwait".