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| Police foil attack on American military helicopter at al-Fujairah airport |
| 2002-11-25 |
| Police seriously wounded a customs official Friday in a shootout at al-Fujairah airport, the official Emirates News Agency WAM reported. I must of missed this story. A security official told AP the customs officer Mohammed Abdullah al-Abdouli, in his twenties, entered a restricted area of the airport and was challenged by police. He opened fire and police responded, wounding him in the neck, WAM said. First a Kuwaiti traffic cop, now a UAE customs officer? According to the London-based Asharq al Awsat newspaper, al-Abdouli entered the area and tried to fire on an American military helicopter that landed in the airport. That's very Islamic of him. The airport, in the emirate of al-Fujairah on the Arabian Sea, is used by both civilian and military planes. Al-Abdouli was arrested and taken for treatment, the agency said. He will be interrogated after he has recovered from his wound, the agency said. And then he can recover from his interrogation. |
| Posted by:Steve |