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| Kuwait cracks down on terror suspects |
| 2002-10-10 |
| US forces in Kuwait have been caught up in two shooting incidents in as many days, including a fatal attack on marines attributed to Islamists allegedly linked to the al-Qaeda terror network. One newspaper reported Thursday that authorities had uncovered a plot to carry out another terror attack by a group linked to the Marines' assailants, and a reliable source told AFP that traditional gathering places in the emirate had been the target of searches for terror suspects. Kuwait not being very large, there is a finite number of gathering places, traditional or otherwise... The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas reported that the interior ministry had foiled an "attack on a large multi-storey target" in Kuwait, as it investigates suspects possibly linked to the Kuwaiti assailants. Trying for another Khobar Towers... Investigations into Tuesday's shooting on Failaka "revealed a plot to carry out a more violent terror attack," planned by a group linked to Kandari and Hajeri, the daily said. The investigations led to the arrests of two medical students belonging to the same group as Kandari and Hajeri. "Security men found in their possession plans, maps and documents to prepare for a pre-planned attack on a large multi-storey target," said Al-Qabas. "No corpses? How can you be a jihadi without a stack of infidel corpses?" Kuwait has also been rounding up groups suspected of assisting the two gunmen who carried out the "terrorist act" on Failaka. The state minister for foreign affairs, Sheikh Mohammad Sabah al-Sabah, said the emirate, a close US ally, was "taking the appropriate steps to round up those who we think provided some assistance to the terrorists." At least two people connected to the assailants are currently being held by the emirate's state security, the security source also said, adding that numerous people have already been questioned and released. And Several people visiting the diwaniyah (gathering place) of former MP Jamal al-Kandari, who has a nephew among 12 Kuwaitis detained by US forces in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were rounded up late Wednesday, another source told AFP. The Kuwaitis, perhaps having a word corresponding to "gratitude" in their dialect of Arabic, seem to take this much more seriously than the Soddies take events in their country... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |