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Two Saudis, 3 Jordanians identified as wanted terrorists |
2005-02-07 |
SULAIBIYA, Kuwait: Police and troops in armored personnel carriers raided a house in this run-down town Saturday, capturing five suspected terrorists holed up inside. The men surrendered after police sealed off the neighborhood and used explosives to blast their way into the primitive concrete block home in Sulaibiya, a mainly Bedouin area about 20 kilometers west of Kuwait City. The Interior Ministry said two of the five men captured are citizens of Saudi Arabia. Three are Jordanians. All were wanted by Kuwaiti authorities. No one was injured in the operation. Sporadic small arms gunfire and a large explosion broke the night air as a police helicopter hovered overhead, shining a spotlight onto the scene. Police said the blast came from a charge troops used to demolish a door leading into the house. Police on the scene said authorities were combing the area to ensure nobody escaped. Crowds of men wearing traditional long robes gathered on street corners watching the operation. Police and Interior Ministry special forces troops in black ski masks and camouflage uniforms could be seen poised outside a row of dilapidated concrete block houses, with Humvees and armored personnel carriers parked nearby. Officials described the operation as a success but warned that they were seeking other extremists still at large. Saturday's raid was the fifth confrontation this year between police and al-Qaeda-influenced Muslim fundamentalists accused of planning to attack Americans and Kuwaiti security forces. |
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