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Five terror suspects surrender in Kuwait
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-02-06 09:21
Kuwaiti security forces surrounded a house outside of the capital Saturday
and arrested five suspected terrorists in the country's latest confrontation
with Islamic militants, official media reported.
Kuwait Television quoted an Interior Ministry statement as saying the five
were two Saudis and three Jordanians wanted by Kuwaiti authorities. The five
surrendered after little resistance in Sulaibiyah, a mainly Bedouin area about
10 miles west of Kuwait City, state television reported.
Kuwaiti security forces take position during a raid at
Sulaibiya in Kuwait City. Three Jordanian and two Saudi wanted militants
surrendered to Kuwaiti security forces after the raid on a suspected
hideout, the interior ministry
said.[AFP] | The operation was fifth confrontation this year between police and
al-Qaida-influenced fundamentalists accused of planning attacks against
Americans and Kuwaiti security forces.
The surrender followed the burial Saturday of 1st Lt. Hamad Majed al-Samhan,
who died from wounds sustained in a Jan. 31 shootout between police and wanted
militants.
Al-Samhan was the fourth police officer to lose his life during last month's
crackdown on Islamic militants in Kuwait, a close U.S. ally, bordering Saudi
Arabia. Many militants oppose the presence of thousands of U.S. troops in the
country.
Kuwait is a logistics hub for U.S. troops serving in Iraq. More than 18,000
U.S. soldiers are stationed here.
Interior Minister Sheik Nawwaf Al Ahmed Al Sabah, who attended al-Samhan's
funeral, told lawmakers this week during a closed door meeting that police have
killed eight militants and detained 14 others, including the ring leader, in
several police raids and four shootouts.
Two suspected militants remain at large, the minister said, but it was
unclear if they were among the five who surrendered Saturday.
Kuwait has been a major ally of Washington since the American-led 1991 Gulf
War that ended the seven-month Iraqi occupation. It was the only Arab country
that openly supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq that toppled dictator Saddam
Hussein almost two years ago.
Since 2002, militant fundamentalists have killed one Marine and one civilian
contractor in Kuwait.
The U.S. Embassy has warned the 13,000 citizens living here to keep a low
profile and avoid places where Westerners congregate because of terrorism
concerns.
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