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7 martyred POWs laid to rest

2005-03-23

Kuwait on Monday laid to rest seven of its martyred POWs who were found in mass graves in Iraq. DNA tests on their remains carried out by labs of the Interior Ministry have identified the martyrs. The funeral procession was attended by First Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, Advisor at the Amiri Diwan Sheikh Mohammed Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry Lieutenant-General Nasser Al-Othman, Deputy Army Chief-of-Staff Major-General Ahmed Khaled Al-Sabah and a large number of statesmen, family and friends of the martyrs.

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Heart attack took Enezi

2005-02-13

The interior minister said a jailed terror suspect died of a heart attack and not due to torture, as some lawmakers have suggested, according to remarks published Thursday. Amer Al-Enezi, 29, was captured in one of four shootouts between security forces and suspected terrorists last month. The Interior Ministry has said Al-Enezi died Tuesday of heart failure at a military hospital. The minister, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, told Al-Rai Al-Aam daily that Al-Enezi's death "was not the result of torture as some have alleged." He told the newspaper the coroner's report "will prove" his account. Walid Al-Tabtabaei, a fundamentalist legislator, filed a question in parliament Wednesday asking whether al-Enezi's interrogators had respected a law that forbids torture. Without addressing the legislator by name, Sheikh Nawaf said accusations that Al-Enezi died of torture were not based on evidence. Police detained Al-Enezi, a former mosque preacher, in a Jan 31 raid on a house in Mubarak Al-Kabir, south of Kuwait City. The Interior Ministry said Al-Enezi, the suspected ringleader, and other detainees were wounded in the raid, but the extent of their injuries was not disclosed.

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Kuwait: Suspects still on run ... prosecution delayed

2005-01-22

First Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah was quoted over the weekend as saying suspects arrested after the shoot-outs between securitymen and militants in Hawally and Umm Al-Haiman will not be referred to the prosecution until investigations into the incidents are completed, reports Al-Seyassah. Earlier reports quoted the minister as saying the suspects will be referred to the prosecution after the Eid Al-Adha holidays. Sheikh Nawaf said since some suspects are still on the run the case will be referred to the prosecution after all of them have been rounded up. His statement comes on the backdrop of reports that securitymen have foiled several attempts by militants to carry out attacks in various parts of the country. Al-Rai Al-Aam also reported that Kuwaiti authorities will parade the militants and weapons seized from them on Kuwait TV after the Eid. Meanwhile, a security source said police raided a house in an undisclosed location and arrested three Kuwaitis, two of whom are brothers, for alleged links with the militants who were involved in the twin shoot-outs Hawally and Umm Al-Haiman. The source added that the police also tried to apprehend a bearded suspect in Kaifan but he managed to escape. It said police raided and searched the house of a man identified as Badi Krouz Al-Ajmi in Jaber Al-Ali but found no weapons. Security men found explosive-making devices, detonators and electric wires in another house in the area last week. A resident of the area was said to have told police many men, some with beards, used to meet regularly in the house on Fridays. He said they used to park their vehicles which had Saudi number plates on the street causing traffic problems and inconvenience to residents of the area.

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Kuwait Questions Terror Suspects Linked to Shootout

2005-01-13

Kuwait said yesterday it was questioning 30 suspects in connection with a deadly shootout between militants and police, as liberals accused the government of promoting terror by supporting Islamists. "The interrogation is ongoing with 30 suspects," Interior Minister Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, told Al-Anba newspaper, after Monday's gunbattle left two intelligence officers and one assailant dead. The minister did not rule out that the perpetrators of the incident, a rare occurrence in Kuwait, could be among those detained. The arrests came as part of a major crackdown by security forces in areas used by suspected militants following the gunfight, which triggered a new US warning to its citizens in Kuwait. Those arrested include the assailants' alleged ideological mentor, a hard-liner, a security source told AFP. "I don't think it is a terrorist plot because of the circumstances that surrounded the incident," Sheikh Nawaf told the daily, after earlier declining to link the militants to Al-Qaeda until investigations are completed. Security authorities are hunting for an unknown number of militants who fled after gunning down the two officers and wounding two others. A security official told AFP Tuesday that two to three militants, believed to be linked to Al-Qaeda, were being pursued. "No, no! It's not terrorism! It's... ummm... something else."

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No to visit by inmates kin

2003-08-07

Washington has rejected a Kuwaiti request to permit the families of 12 Kuwaitis detained at Camp "X-ray" to visit their children at the camp, as Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah will begin next month an official visit to the United States during which he will seek the release of the detainees. "Sheikh Sabah will visit the US in September to negotiate with American officials the release of the 12 Kuwaitis held at the Guantanamo camp," Chairman of Parliament's Human Rights Committee MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei said after a meeting with Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah at the National Assembly Tuesday. He hoped Sheikh Sabah's visit will be a success. Committee member MP Abdullah Akash said US authorities have turned down a Kuwaiti request to permit a committee member or a representative from the families of the detainees to accompany a high-profile Kuwaiti security delegation which will visit the detainees at the camp in the next two weeks. He expressed astonishment over "this American inflexibility by rejecting this humanitarian request." I kinda wonder how many times the families of the unfortunates so wrongly incarcerated visited them while they were in Afghanistan?

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