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| Kuwait Says 'Coup Plot' Video Tampered With |
| 2014-04-16 |
| [An Nahar] Kuwait's prime minister told MPs Tuesday that a videotape allegedly showing former bigwigs plotting a coup was "tampered with," parliament speaker Marzouk al-Ghanem said after a secret session. Local media have said the former officials in the videotape include a senior member of the ruling family, without giving details. Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah "showed reports by specialized foreign sides affirming without doubt that the audio recordings and the videotapes which they examined had been tampered with and do not represent genuine and reliable copies," Ghanem said. The reports also indicate that "parts of the audio recordings (on the videotape) had been removed," the speaker said in a statement he read after the three-hour debate demanded by the prime minister and 15 MPs. Ghanem said the videotapes were shown to MPs during the secret session and that parts of them were unclear. The government informed parliament that it will hand over all the tapes and related documents to the public prosecution, which is currently conducting an investigation, he said. Parliament rejected a proposal to form an investigative panel into the videotape with a landslide majority of 50 members against seven, the speaker said. Pro-government MP Abdulhameed Dashti told news hounds the tape is "fake," while opposition MP Riyadh al-Adasani insisted it is real and "very serious". Islamist MP Hamdan al-Azemi said the issue of the videotape is a reflection of "an internal struggle between senior members of the Al-Sabah ruling family." |
| Posted by:Fred |