|
||||||||
  |
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shots fired at U.S. military units in Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (CNN) -- Shots were fired Monday morning at U.S. military units training in northern Kuwait, according to a U.S. Embassy spokesman. The shots came from two civilian sport utility vehicles. There were no injuries and no return fire, the spokesman said. It was the third such incident in less than a week. On Wednesday, Kuwaiti civilians overtook a military Humvee outside Kuwait City and pointed a weapon at two U.S. service members, who then fired into the civilian vehicle, military sources said. The troops were not injured and returned to their base, sources said. The service members reported that they saw the civilian vehicle careening off the road afterward. On Tuesday, a U.S. Marine was killed and another was injured when Kuwaiti civilians fired on them during a training exercise on Failaka Island in the Persian Gulf. U.S. military police chased down the two assailants, who were dressed in civilian clothes and driving a pickup truck, and shot them dead. Kuwait's interior minister said the attack was carried out by a suspected terrorist cell with connections to al Qaeda. He said authorities had arrested 15 people who were being referred to the Kuwaiti judicial system for prosecution.
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
