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Last week, a U.S. marine was killed and another injured when attacked by two Kuwaitis while conducting wargames on Failaka island
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KUWAIT
CITY, October 17 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A Kuwaiti
teenager with 10 Molotov cocktails in his car was arrested Thursday,
October 17, near a complex housing many U.S. military personnel.
"A
17-year-old approached a policeman and told him he was suspicious of a
car nearby," an interior ministry official told Agence
France-Presse (AFP) on condition of anonymity.
"The
boy seemed very nervous and police checked the suspect car, which
turned out to be the boy's," he said.
"He
claimed he had received orders through the Internet, from Pakistan. He
said he was told to put the 10 Molotov cocktails that we found in his
car, in the two buildings," the official said, referring to the
Alia and Ghalia towers in Fintas, 15 kilometers (nine miles) south of
Kuwait City.
He
said security has been tightened around the complex, which is home to
many U.S. military personnel from the nearby Ahmad al-Jaber airbase,
where Washington keeps an undisclosed number of warplanes.
The
Kuwaiti interior ministry later released a statement denying the boy
was carrying explosives.
"A
17-year-old citizen informed a security guard at a residential complex
in Fintas at noon today that there are 10 bottles of fuel in his car,
which was parked near the complex," the statement said.
"The
bottles were confiscated and the Kuwaiti citizen is being
investigated," it added, stressing that "reports saying the
citizen was carrying explosives to use against that residential
complex are totally untrue."
Security
sources earlier told AFP the teenager approached a police checkpoint
claiming he had a letter from Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
The
area in which the incident occurred was cordoned off for some time by
security personnel, and a bomb squad was also present.
Tensions
in Kuwait have been running high since a shooting last week that left
one U.S. marine dead and one other wounded during a military training
exercise on Failaka island, 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of Kuwait
City.
The
two Kuwaitis were gunned down in the October 8 attack, and 15 Kuwaitis
have since been arrested and referred to the public prosecution for
questioning.
Two
shooting incidents involving U.S forces followed the fatal attack, but
Kuwaiti officials have played down both of them.
The
emirate condemned the Failaka attack and warned it will deal sternly
with anyone who threatened the country's national security.
But
the incidents reveal a mounting popular anti-U.S. sentiment and a
marked opposition to the imposing U.S. presence in the Gulf emirate.
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