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Kuwait's National Assembly (Parliament) on Monday started deliberations on the request of 10 MPs to refer article one of the electoral law to the Constitutional Court, in an attempt to grant women full political rights. However, parliament Speaker Jassem Al-Kharafi adjourned the session for 15 minutes after crowds started clapping hard following the speech given by MP Mohammed Al-Saqer, a pro-women rights activist. According to KUNA, the speaker ordered the crowds to leave the parliament building. A large number of people started gathering outside the parliament building since 8:00 Monday morning before they enetered the parliament to attend the session.

The Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa recently reported that Iran has delivered missiles to Hizbullah in Lebanon via Syria, and that Iran and Syria are cooperating closely in missile development and deployment. The following are excerpts of the article:(1) "Two cargo aircraft landed on the morning of Wednesday, August 4, 2004, at one of the Syrian military airfields in north Damascus. There to greet the planes were Iranian Ambassador to Syria Riza Baqiri and Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mas'ud Idris." Al-Siyassa also reported that "several Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers had arrived the previous day from their headquarters at a Hizbullah military camp...

Special ReportSaffuri's Ties to Terror Suspects Posted Feb. 23, 2004 By Kenneth R. Timmerman Saffuri (above) has formed relationships with several questionable allies, including Sami al-Arian, who was arrested last year. The rise of Khaled Saffuri to political prominence within the U.S. Muslim community has all the ingredients of a Horatio Alger success story. Brought up as a stateless exile in Kuwait, Saffuri came to America as a student in 1982, went to college in San Diego, and soon gravitated into the world of Muslim activism. A talented fund-raiser and behind-the-scenes power broker, Saffuri built bridges to politicians in both...

Egyptian authorities have arrested a Kuwaiti passenger on board a Qatar Airways flight that made an emergency landing in Cairo after he attempted to hijack the plane, an airline official said. Airline spokeswoman Salam al-Shawa said the man had no sharp objects but had caused a disturbance on flight 553 to Doha from Casablanca when he wanted to overtake the flight. "One of the passengers caused trouble as he wanted to enter the cabin and change the route," Ms Shawa said. "The pilot refused and landed in Cairo. He is a Kuwaiti national and he is under the custody of...

A livery driver with a mysterious personal life was seriously wounded yesterday in Queens, becoming the first livery hack shot on the job in more than a year. Police have neither suspect nor motive in the 2:30 a.m. wounding of Michael Goldberg, 36, at 253rd St. and 147th Drive, in Rosedale. But the incident was even more puzzling to his wife, who said she had believed Goldberg was in Kuwait with his parents. Kate Bontoyan, 52, rushed to her husband's side in the intensive care unit at Mary Immaculate Hospital, where he communicated by writing notes. She said he went...

<p>KUWAIT CITY - A court in Kuwait sentenced a man to death Wednesday for shooting two Americans, one of them fatally, at a traffic signal near a U.S. base as the Iraq war loomed.</p> <p>The court sentenced three other Kuwaitis, including one who remains at large, to prison for the Jan. 21 ambush on the road leading to Camp Doha.</p>

Did translator shortage backfire?WND exposed inadequate preparation of Arabic-language interrogators Posted: March 22, 200311:00 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com As two Kuwaiti Arabic translators are held along with an American Muslim sergeant in the fragging attack at Camp Pennsylvania, questions are being raised about the Army's heavy reliance on local translators rather than qualified U.S. military Arabic speakers and interrogators. Back in September, WorldNetDaily first blew the whistle on the shortage of trained U.S. military translators and Arabic interrogators. Sources close to the preparations for a U.S. invasion of Iraq were concerned even last fall about what they perceived to be the...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi border guards Wednesday arrested a Kuwaiti suspected of killing one American and critically wounding another in an ambush in Kuwait, the official Saudi Press Agency reported. The agency quoted an unidentified Interior Ministry official as saying the Kuwaiti was arrested "sneaking into Saudi Arabia from Kuwait." "The initial investigation revealed that he was the assailant who fired on the American citizens on Tuesday," the report said.

Kuwaiti with Petrol Bombs Arrested Near US Apartments Thu Oct 17, 9:45 AM ET KUWAIT (Reuters) - A Kuwaiti man with Molotov cocktails in his vehicle was arrested Thursday near a complex housing scores of U.S. military officers in Kuwait. "The man gave himself up and nothing happened," a senior Kuwaiti security source told Reuters. "He said he had Molotov (cocktails) in his car and that he had received orders by the Internet to carry out an attack" in an area on the outskirts of Kuwaiti City

Immediate military action should be launched against Baghdad to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime as a means to “liberate” the Iraqi people, a Kuwaiti newspaper said on Monday. "We don't only support a strike on the Iraqi regime but we also call for immediate military action to topple the regime," Al-Watan said in a front-page editorial. "The liberation of the Iraqi people should be the title of the coming phase," which can only be achieved through toppling the (Iraqi) regime, "as soon as possible." Saddam Hussein poses much less of a direct threat to the United States, Israel and the Gulf...

World's Oldest Boat Found in Desert The piece of ancient boat on the left bears parallel reed impressions, and a row of small holes, perhaps from pegs. The slab on the right sports barnacles, showing that the slabs had been immersed in sea water for a number of months before they were put into storage. By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News normalize font   |   increase font June 17 — The world's oldest known boat, built 7,000 years ago out of tarry, bitumen-covered slabs, has been found in an unlikely place: the Kuwaiti desert. If the assessment of British and...