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| Kuwaiti arrested with mortar at hotel |
| 2003-03-01 |
| A Kuwaiti man with a mortar was arrested on Saturday when he tried to enter a hotel housing the main U.S. and British military press center in the Gulf state, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. Security officials had initially said several men with petrol bombs had been detained but the ministry spokesman said only one man had been arrested. "He was stopped at the hotel security checkpoint and he was arrested after a mortar was found in his car. He was trying to get into the hotel grounds," Colonel Ahmad al-Sharkawi told Reuters. "He is now being held by state security." "Last time I stayed here, there was a mouse in my room..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #8 The mortar was supposed to be used in foreplay, in a romantic weekend of gun sex. It's a cultural thing.... |
| Posted by: RW 2003-03-01 18:05:58 |
| #7 That was an elk-size mouse. |
| Posted by: seafarious 2003-03-01 15:46:49 |
| #6 It was all an innocent mistake. Maybe he was going to go duck hunting. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-03-01 13:36:13 |
| #5 Next on Donahue "Men Who Love Mortars and the Hotels that House Them" |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-03-01 12:09:20 |
| #4 Not indicative of an array of resources or much planning either. If only all our enemies could be so poorly equiped and inept! |
| Posted by: Tom 2003-03-01 11:45:07 |
| #3 Mortar !?! What's next, a 155mm howitzer ? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-03-01 11:16:14 |
| #2 Not indicative of an array of resources or much planning either. If only all our enemies could be so poorly equiped and inept! |
| Posted by: Tom 3/1/2003 11:45:07 AM |
| #1 Mortar !?! What's next, a 155mm howitzer ? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 3/1/2003 11:16:14 AM |