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Arabia
Kuwaiti detainees are linked to al-Qaeda
2005-01-04
A number of Kuwaiti soldiers detained here on charges of planning attacks on "friendly forces" in the emirate have "ideological links" to Al Qaeda, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. "The arrested soldiers include a number of officers ... and they belong ideologically to the Al Qaeda organisation," said Al-Siyassah, quoting sources. Maps of US army locations in Kuwait were seized from the suspects, it said. "The military intelligence service is questioning some soldiers, following information concerning their intention to carry out an attack on friendly forces," Kuwaiti army spokesman Brigadier Yussef al-Mulla announced late Monday.
Can we believe anything someone named Joe the Mullah says?
Some of the soldiers were released while a few others were still under interrogation, Mulla said.
That makes sense. Arab sense, mind you, but sense.
A Kuwaiti security source told AFP that at least 15 men, including four officers, had been questioned while four were still being detained. The arrests followed the extradition from Syria of a Kuwaiti who was heading for Iraq to fight American forces there, the source said. Al-Rai Al-Aam meanwhile said the group was planning to attack US forces during the Muslim Eid Al-Adha feast around January 21. Quoting security sources, it said members of the group had links with former servicemen who fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya and were dismissed from the Kuwaiti army.
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