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...official at the U.S. embassy says the unnamed injured man, thought to be the driver, was taken to nearby Al Razi hospital, and is in a stable condition following an operation. Kuwaiti and American military police set up guard outside the hospital. Plain clothes military investigators refused to answer reporters' questions saying they just "wanted to see their friend...
...Kuwaiti forensic police found tire tracks and boot prints in muddy open ground 300 yards south of the shooting that they believe may be connected to the attack. A team of white-coated women took plaster castes of the tracks for further investigation. A policeman said tests would soon determine how many weapons had been used in the attack. The field running alongside the highway is crisscrossed with dirt roads making escape on foot or by car easy...
...Tuesday's incident comes three months after two gunmen opened fire on a group of U.S. Marines conducting war games on a Kuwaiti island, killing one Marine and badly injuring another. Kuwait's interior minister later said one of the two extremists, who were killed when the Marines returned fire, had sworn allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Kuwait is a critical element of U.S. plans for a possible invasion of Iraq. The oil-rich emirate is likely to be the main springboard for any land invasion. More than 15,000 U.S. troops are already stationed here, training in the bleak...
...Makassar, the South Sulawesi-based Islamic group has found itself the target of police scrutiny, in part because of the group's own geneaology. One of its alleged co-founders, Agus Dwikarna, is a convicted terrorist serving a 17-year jail sentence in the Philippines, while the other is Kuwaiti Omar al-Faruq, the top al-Qaeda operative in Southeast Asia until his June arrest in West Java. (He is now in U.S. custody at an undisclosed location.) Other members have been detained; as with the JI investigation, each arrest discloses more disturbing tidings. "They're more than they claim...
...participating in Operation Anfal, which included a 1988 gas attack on Halabja that killed 5,000 Kurdish civilians. Khazraji, a possible successor to Saddam Hussein, said Iraqi secret police had made up the claims to stop him from organizing a dissident movement. KUWAIT In the Firing Line A Kuwaiti policeman, Khalid Messier al-Shimmari, was arrested in Saudi Arabia for shooting and seriously wounding two U.S. soldiers near Kuwait City. The attack followed the killing of another American soldier in October. Kuwait hosts 10,000 U.S. troops and the emirate is expected to be one of the launch pads...