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Jaber Al-Ali home nested bomb gear; Terror funds from sources next door
Kuwait said Wednesday it had seized explosives material during a raid on a house in the latest of several such finds since gunbattles with suspected Islamist militants last week. Security forces "seized a quantity of explosive-making material, detonators and electric wires" after storming a house Wednesday evening in the Jaber Al-Ali district some 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Kuwait City, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the state KUNA news agency. The explosive materials, which were "ready for use," were similar to those seized in Umm al-Haiman, the statement said.
Kuwait seems to do things a bit differently from Soddy Arabia. The Soddies wait for a shootout, perhaps bang a couple Bad Guyz, surround a few others and scatch their heads when they get away. The Kuwaitis look like they're wringing as much info as they can get out of the Bad Boyz they rounded up, and they're actually acting on that info. I don't think they like shootouts in Kuwait.
Security forces uncovered a large arms cache in Umm al-Haiman, 70 kilometers south of Kuwait City, on Jan 15 following a clash with suspected extremists in which a Saudi militant was killed. The gunbattle, near the largest US military base in Kuwait, came five days after another shoot-out closer to the capital left two security officers dead. Two suspects, including the Saudi national, were killed in the two gunbattles, while up to 15 others, a number of them Saudi, were arrested, according to Interior Minister Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.
That was when they met the very large men with the moustachios and truncheons...

Posted by: Fred 2005-01-21
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