 Al-Qaeda-linked militants who over the past month fought four bloody gunbattles with Kuwaiti security forces had plotted to kidnap and execute US soldiers and Westerners, a newspaper reported Saturday. Nasser Khlaif Al-Enezi, a senior member of the group who was killed on Jan 30, "plotted to kidnap US soldiers and Western civilians and execute them and film the process," his brother Amer, the alleged leader of the group, told interrogators, Al-Qabas daily said. Amer said that his brother received training on such operations while he was in Iraq fighting against US-led coalition troops, the paper said, 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 a bid to obstruct supplies headed for Baghdad. 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 also near US supply lines. Security forces raided the house on Jan 15, killing a Saudi militant and arresting three other militants while an unspecified number fled. The government told parliament in a closed-door session Tuesday that documents seized from the group show the militants plotted attacks on US military convoys, Western civilian targets and the headquarters of the State Security Agency. |