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  • Al-Qaeda 'Plotted Executions In Kuwait'

    02/06/2005 10:42:16 AM PST · by HAL9000 · 5 replies · 468+ views
    Sky News ^ | February 6, 2005
    AL-QAEDA MILITANTS' PLANS Al-Qaeda-linked militants who fought four bloody gun battles with Kuwaiti forces over the last month plotted to kidnap and execute US soldiers and westerners, according to a report. Nasser Khlaif al-Enezi, who was killed on January 30, planned to kidnap US soldiers and western civilians. They would then be executed on film, his brother Amer, the alleged leader of the group, told interrogators. The newspaper Al-Qabas said his brother, who was a senior member of the group, received training in such operations while in Iraq fighting against US-led coalition troops. Nasser also received instructions from armed...
  • Americans main target of terror cell; Thirty-five referred for prosecution

    02/05/2005 7:02:18 PM PST · by TexKat · 6 replies · 589+ views
    ARABTIMES ^ | 2/06/05
    KUWAIT (Agencies): Kuwaiti security forces are hunting a number of key militant suspects after a recent spate of al-Qaeda-linked violence in the state, security sources said on Friday. Confessions of captured militants revealed they were planning suicide attacks against US forces in Kuwait as well as Kuwait’s state security forces, the sources said. Kuwaiti security killed five suspected al-Qaeda militants and captured three, including the group’s leader, on Monday in the fourth such gunbattle in the country last month. State security officer Hamad Al-Samhan, one of three police, wounded in the clash, died in hospital on Friday, the sources said....
  • Gunbattle rages in Kuwait City

    01/29/2005 11:50:50 PM PST · by HAL9000 · 7 replies · 542+ views
    BBC News ^ | January 30, 2005
    A gunbattle has erupted in Kuwait after police raided a building where militants were believed to be hiding. Police cordoned off an area of the city, from where gunfire and small explosions were heard, reports say. Details of the incident remain limited, although one witness told the AFP news agency the shooting began at 0930 (0630 GMT) on a main street. There has been a spate of violence in Kuwait which some say is linked to militants connected to al-Qaeda.
  • Security holds leading Kuwaiti Qaeda suspect

    01/08/2005 3:55:06 PM PST · by mdittmar · 2 replies · 413+ views
    arabtimes ^ | 9th Jan 2005 | arabtimes
    Kuwait's authorities have arrested a leading Kuwaiti al-Qaeda suspect accused of enlisting youths to attack US forces in Iraq, a security source said on Friday. Mohsen al-Fadli - an Islamic militant hunted by state security since August for allegedly supporting al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden - was detained earlier this week and is being interrogated, the source told Reuters. "Investigations are still ongoing at the Interior Ministry, and they could take up to one month," the source said. "There are various accusations against Fadli and they cannot be finalised until interrogations are completed." Authorities in August called on the public...
  • More Al-Qaida suspects arrested

    03/14/2003 4:23:54 AM PST · by #1CTYankee · 15 replies · 405+ views
    ISLAMABAD, March 14 (KUNA) -- The law enforcement agencies assisted by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents during a midnight raid arrested four foreigners and two Pakistanis from Tajabad near Peshawar, an official said here. The security official requesting anonymity told KUNA on Friday that law enforcement agencies personnel and FBI agents raided the house of Taj Gul and Umar in Tajabad and arrested them along with their four Arab guests. He said that the agencies on a tip off that some "Al-Qaida" suspects were being sheltered by their local sympathisers, stormed the house and arrested the suspects. "The recovered...