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Kuwait detains soldiers for plot against U.S. forces
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-01-04 08:45
Kuwaiti security forces have detained up to eight Kuwaiti soldiers suspected
of plotting to attack U.S. forces in the Gulf Arab state, a security source said
Monday.
The soldiers, some of whom are high-ranking officers, and several non-Kuwaiti
citizens were detained a week ago and are being questioned over an alleged plan
to attack U.S. soldiers in Kuwait, the launchpad for the 2003 war on Iraq.
Kuwait's official news agency KUNA quoted a military official as saying that
Kuwaiti "Army Intelligence's security apparatus is interrogating some members of
the military after what surfaced on a plot against friendly troops."
Kuwait's
Defence Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah seen in 2004. The
Kuwaiti army said it had arrested a number of soldiers who were planning
to attack 'friendly forces' in the emirate, two weeks after the United
States warned of the increased possibility of militant attacks.
[AFP/file] | Director of Moral Guidance and Public Relations, Army Chief of Staff, Air
Commodore Yousef Abdelrazzak al-Mulla told KUNA that some men had been released.
Anyone with proven links to the alleged plot would be referred to the martial
court, he added.
Al-Mulla declined to say how many soldiers had been detained.
U.S. officials were not immediately available for comment.
The United States has warned Americans in Kuwait that militants are preparing
to launch attacks in the Gulf Arab state and has urged its citizens to be
vigilant.
Following a December attack on a U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
boosted security around oil and other key installations and major Western
embassies in the OPEC nation, which controls nearly 10 percent of global
petroleum reserves.
The Gulf Arab state has been cracking down on Muslim militants opposed to the
presence of U.S. forces in the oil-rich country as well as those plotting
attacks against foreign troops in neighboring Iraq.
A group of 20 Kuwaiti men are being tried for plotting to attack U.S.-led
forces in Iraq and Kuwait. A Kuwaiti court is also trying another group of three
Kuwaiti men accused of entering the Iraqi city of Falluja to fight U.S.-led
forces.
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