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Seven expats injured in drive-by shooting
Update from yesterday, with names. EFL:Securitymen Monday arrested a Kuwaiti man - identified as Ali Nasser Al-Ajmi (29 years old) - along with two of his accomplices for allegedly firing at a bus of the National Industries Company (NIC) when it was passing by an US military convoy at 2.40 pm earlier in the day. Hummm, sounds like he missed the entire convoy and hit a bus. Well, he is a Kuwaiti. Seven expatriate labourers were injured in the attack. Sources say Ali - a resident of Riqqa - was is the same man who shot at the American soldiers Sunday on the Seventh Ring Road and at Mina Abdullah. So heâs a serial shooter. A reliable security source said, "three Egyptian labourers, three Indians and one Syrian were wounded in Mondayâs attack." He added policemen in a patrol car stationed at the bridge - where Ali attacked the bus Monday - were able to note the plate number of a dark grey Chevy sedan which the assailant was driving. Later CID men arrested Ali along with two others and found the Chevy and a van which were used in Sundayâs attack. Just good old fashioned police work. Ali confessed to his crime, the source added. Does Kuwait make itâs own truncheons or are they imported? "The Egyptian driver of the NIC bus - with 61 labourers on board - drove on for 150 meters after hearing the gun shots and suddenly slammed the brakes which resulted in minor injuries to an unknown number of labourers," he said. "Oh great, the freaking bullets miss me and I end up nearly getting killed by the bus driver." Lt Col Vic Harris, a spokesman with the US military in Kuwait, said the attack took place just outside the Port of Shuaiba. US forces use the port, south of Kuwait City, for transporting equipment. Earlier, Harris said the workers may have been contracted by Americans to work in the port. Later, however, he said the five did not work for the US military. The Interior Ministry official told the Associated Press the workers were from India, Egypt and Syria, and the bus had the name of National Industries Company on it. He said he had no information on who they worked for. One of the injuries is serious, he added. A US Embassy spokesman said Sundayâs shootings on the convoys appear to have been "terrorist attacks," targeting the US military force. No shit? Glad you cleared that up "But we have no specific information of who is responsible," the spokesman said on condition of anonymity. "I can say no more" Posted by: Steve 2003-12-16 |
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