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Kuwait says holds Iraq tugboat, crew in its waters
Amid rising tension over a possible U.S.-led war in Iraq, Kuwait's navy stopped an Iraqi tugboat on Thursday after it entered Kuwaiti waters and arrested its crew of four, the official KUNA news agency reported. Major naval victory for the Imperial Kuwaiti Navy, bagged Tugboat Willy.. It quoted Kuwaiti Defence Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Hamad al-Sabah as saying he had asked the navy to turn over the four Iraqis to the interior ministry to determine their identity and take legal measures against them. The tugboat's seizure follows an incident on Tuesday in which Kuwait said an Iraqi vessel fired on Kuwaiti coast guard boats in the Gulf. Iraq denied involvement in Tuesday's incident and a U.S. military official said that there was no indication that any Iraqi vessel had fired on the Kuwaiti boats. Somebody here is not telling the truth. Posted by: Steve 2002-12-05 |
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