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| Kuwaiti hard boyz plotted to execute Westerners, trained in Iraq |
| 2005-02-05 |
| Al-Qaeda-linked militants who had fought four gun battles with Kuwaiti security forces in the past month, had plotted to kidnap and execute US soldiers and Westerners, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Nasser Khlaif al-Enezi, a senior member of the group who was killed on January 30, "plotted to kidnap US soldiers and Western civilians, execute them and film the process," his brother Amer, the alleged leader of the group, told interrogators, reported Al-Qabas daily. Amer said that his brother had received training on such operations while he was in Iraq fighting against the US-led coalition troops, said the paper quoting sources close to the investigation. Nasser also received instructions from "armed terrorist groups" in Iraq to attack US military convoys on their way to Iraq from bases in Kuwait in attempts to obstruct supplies headed for Baghdad, the daily said. The alleged executions were supposed to have taken place at a house in Umm Al-Haiman, south of the capital, which is close to the largest US military base at Arifjan and is also near US supply lines. Security forces raided the house on January 15, killed a Saudi militant and arrested three other militants while an unspecified number fled. In a closed doors session on Tuesday, the government told parliament that documents seized from the group indicated that the militants had plotted attacks on US military convoys, Western civilian targets and the headquarters of the State Security Agency, said Kuwait's secret police. Security for US military convoys that use the emirate as a passage to neighbouring Iraq, has been boosted with more Kuwaiti police cars accompanying the convoys. Traffic has been stopped on some occasions. There are around 25,000 US troops stationed in Kuwait, a staunch US ally, which serves as a transit point for coalition forces moving in and out of Iraq. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |