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| Kuwait arrests 21 Iranian, Afghan ''immigrants'' |
| 2002-09-14 |
| Kuwaiti authorities have arrested 21 Iranians and Afghans who entered the emirate illegally by sea and are still searching for a boat-load of more "infiltrators", a newspaper reported Saturday. "Kuwaiti beaches were exposed to an invasion of Iranian and Afghan infiltrators at dawn Friday," Al-Watan said. The coastguard detected several "targets" in the early hours and on approaching them, arrested 21 Iranians and Afghans on three separate boats all heading for different beaches south of Kuwait City. Security authorities were on the look out for a fourth boat suspected of carrying more men, the daily said. Illegals looking for jobs? Or did they have something else in mind? Some 66,000 expatriates work legally in Kuwait, mainly in manual and low-paid jobs. Kuwait's 290-kilometre (180-mile) Gulf coastline faces Iran, a key transit point for the westward movement of both illegal workers and drugs. And Bad Guys. Let's not forget the Bad Guys... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |