Kuwait Nabs Al Qaeda Group Planning Attack on U.S. Base

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Luckily the Kuwaiti's (and Aliies) were able to stop this attack. Strong work to the allied folks who may have been involved with the intel gatehring and breaking up of the plot.

Hopefully these scumbags will be treated poorly after a proper trial of course;)


Kuwait Nabs Al Qaeda Group Planning Attack on U.S. Base
SOURCE (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538914,00.html)

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

KUWAIT CITY — Kuwaiti authorities announced Tuesday they have arrested an Al Qaeda-linked group that was planning to attack a key U.S. military base in the small oil-rich state.

The Interior Ministry said in a brief statement that State Security detained a "terrorist network" of six Kuwaitis who gave "detailed confessions" about plans to bomb Camp Arifjan, the main U.S. base in the country, as well as the headquarters of the country's security agency, in addition to other facilities it did not name.

The statement did not provide any details. However, Kuwait's Alrai daily quoted anonymous security sources on Tuesday that the group had confessed to buying a truck which it intended to load with fertilizer, chemicals and gas cylinders and ram into the camp.

It was unlikely the attack on the vast American logistics and supply facility in the desert south of Kuwait City would have been successful due to high security.

Kuwait has been a close U.S. ally since the Washington-led 1991 Gulf War that liberated it from a seven-month Iraqi occupation under Saddam Hussein.

But militants in the country oppose the U.S. military presence and have attacked American troops and civilians working for them in the past.

In October 2002, two Kuwaiti extremists opened fire on U.S. Marines training on Failaka island, killing one and injuring another. In January 2003, a fundamentalist civil servant killed an American contractor and severely wounded another when he ambushed their car near a U.S. army camp.

Six Kuwaitis and stateless Arabs are serving life sentences after being convicted in 2007 of planning attacks on U.S. troops and Kuwaiti security personnel. They were part of a group arrested after unprecedented street clashes with militants in 2005.

[Gypsy]

Good work.

[incarcerated]

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Kuwait: An Ambitious Attack Plan

August 13, 2009 | 1636 GMT
Summary
Kuwait’s State Security Service announced Aug. 12 that a group of militants was planning to attack the Shuaiba oil refinery some 30 miles south of the capital, Kuwait City. The announcement came a day after authorities said they had arrested six Kuwaiti citizens for allegedly plotting to attack a U.S. military base and a Kuwaiti State Security building using trucks rigged with explosives. Details released so far indicate that the plot did not necessarily pose an imminent threat to the intended targets.

Analysis
Kuwaiti security officials released more details Aug. 12 about a militant group’s plot targeting U.S. and Kuwaiti interests in the country. After the militants were arrested Aug. 11, police announced that the Camp Arifjan U.S. military base and a Kuwaiti State Security building were targeted in the plot. On Aug. 12, police added the Shuaiba oil refinery to the list of targets the cell had conducted surveillance on and planned to attack.

According to the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry, the captured militant cell consisted of six Kuwaiti citizens with links to al Qaeda. They allegedly confessed to purchasing a truck with the intention of using it to deliver improvised explosive devices (composed of fertilizer, chemicals and gas canisters) in attacks on the military base, State Security Service building and oil refinery. It appears the group had not yet obtained the materials needed to construct the devices. The group allegedly had downloaded images of the targets from Google Earth and made video recordings of the targets. The militants also allegedly confessed they intended to carry out the attacks during Ramadan, which begins in late August.

According to the suspects’ attorney, five of the six people arrested had also been involved in a 2002 ambush on Failaka Island in Kuwait in which one U.S. Marine was killed. The group does appear to have some kind of connection to Bahrain, however, because the tip-off about the group’s existence, which led Kuwaiti authorities to begin surveillance of the group, reportedly came from sources in Bahrain. It is unclear where the men have been during the nearly seven years since the Failaka attack and, because of the outflow of militants from Iraq and Saudi Arabia and the long-standing jihadist presence in Kuwait, neither the Failaka or Bahrain link necessarily points to affiliation with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al Qaeda in Iraq or another al Qaeda-linked cell. Nonetheless, the plot shows that al Qaeda-linked and al Qaeda-motivated groups are still active in the Middle East....