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Tue Feb 17, 3:49 AM ET
KUWAIT CITY - A bus carry American troops rolled over near a Kuwaiti air base over the weekend, injuring 25 soldiers, four of them seriously, a military spokesman said Tuesday.
The Kuwaiti authorities are investigating the accident, which happened Sunday afternoon near the Ali Al Salem air base, Capt. Randall Baucom told The Associated Press.
The bus had been leased from a local company, Baucom said.
News of the accident emerged on Tuesday after the local newspaper Al-Anba reported it with Kuwaiti sources.
The four U.S. soldiers who were seriously wounded have been admitted to the Kuwait Armed Forces hospital. The other injured were treated at various U.S. camps in Kuwait, Baucom said.
Kuwait has been a major ally of Washington in the area, since a U.S.-led coalition fought the 1991 Gulf War that liberated it from a seven-month Iraqi occupation.
The small oil-rich state was the launch pad for the war in Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in April.
TOKYO - Police investigating a disturbance outside Japan's Defense Agency on Tuesday found a pair of homemade rocket launchers that may have used been in a symbolic attack by leftist radicals. No injuries or damage were reported.
The area around the agency in downtown Tokyo was cordoned off and police and firefighters were called in after authorities received reports of two loud bangs late Tuesday night.
Investigators found a pair of pipes fashioned into crude projectile launchers but were still looking for what they might have fired, a spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police said on condition of anonymity.
Leftist radicals in Japan occasionally make symbolic attacks with such weapons on targets related to the military or Japan's royal family.
Police suspect the homemade weapons may have been set off in a protest of a controversial decision by the Japanese government to send troops to help rebuild Iraq (news - web sites), the spokesman said.
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