Posted on 01/14/2005 8:26:41 PM PST by blam
Soldiers in 'anti-US plot' held by Kuwait
By Robin Gedye, Foreign Affairs Writer
(Filed: 15/01/2005)
US-Kuwaiti military exercises are under review after the arrest of eight Kuwaiti soldiers, five of them officers, on suspicion of planning attacks against US troops, according to senior Kuwaiti officials.
The arrests were followed this week by the death of a terrorist linked to al-Qa'eda during a gun battle in which two police officers died, and the subsequent detention of 30 terrorist suspects in a series of police raids.
At least two of the soldiers are to be court martialled amid allegations that they planned to attack US troops during the first stage of the exercises which began on Jan 5 and end next Tuesday.
A further stage in the joint exercises is now under review, according to well-informed official sources.
The soldiers, including several lieutenants and a major, were arrested in the last week of December after a tip from Saudi Arabia that an al-Qa'eda cell was operating in Kuwait, where 12,000 US civilians live and 25,000 US troops are based, using it as a launch pad for operations in Iraq.
Kuwait was placed on a top security alert, one stage below a war footing, just after Christmas, with armoured cars and police vehicles stationed at road junctions, hotels, embassies and oil installations.
The alert level was about to be reduced when shooting erupted on Monday as security forces tried to detain four suspected terrorists. One suspect, Fawaz Al-Utaibi, named by Saudi Arabia in the intelligence tip, died of wounds in hospital.
The subsequent round-up of suspects included the detention of an imam said to be the cell's mastermind.
The US and British embassies raised their alert levels, telling nationals to remain vigilant to "a high threat." The US embassy gave warning of "random attacks" on westerners.
Kuwaiti MPs are calling on the government to wake up to a threat that is, said a former minister, "like fire under ashes".
Just another peaceful preacher of tolerance huh?
Ah, some of the fine folks the USA saved in '91. More "Thank you, America!"
Nothing surprising here. What's surprising is that al-Qa'eda has apparently penetrated the Kuwaiti military.
Yup. We probably ought to run some more PSA's about how wonderful these people are.
Islam tends to trump every other consideration unless the individuals in question aren't really serious about their religion.
For a committed Christian it would in theory be the same. Given a choice between God and something else, God comes first. But the Christian God doesn't tell us to go out and murder people. The Christian God doesn't normally say, "Betray your country" or "Murder your friends." Evidently Allah does.
It looks that way.
From your link,
"CAIR officials requested the meeting with Fox after viewing the first four "24" episodes, which "confirmed our concerns that the story was going in a dangerous direction: casting a shadow of suspicion on ordinary American Muslims."
OMG, cry me a river! Didn't take long for Fox to cave.
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