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Army vehicles travel in convoy to the military base in Camp Doha
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KUWAIT
CITY, November 2 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – U.S. forces
training in Kuwait were caught up in another shooting on Friday, the
fourth such incident in less than a month, according to a spokesman at
Camp Doha, base to most of the troops.
"Shots were fired in the vicinity of the area where the soldiers
are located in the south," the spokesman told Agence France-Presse
(AFP) Saturday, November 2.
The
incident occurred in Orayfijan, some 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of
Kuwait City, at approximately 7:30 am (0430 GMT) Friday.
The
soldiers saw "two white pick-up trucks. They were sure the two
trucks fired the shots, which were fired in the vicinity of the
soldiers," the spokesman said, adding that fire was not returned.
The
soldiers were engaged "in support of training going on for
Operation Desert Spring," an ongoing joint exercise with Kuwaiti
forces, the spokesperson said.
They
were not in vehicles at the time the shots were fired and no injuries
were reported.
The
incident is being investigated by Kuwaiti security authorities, the
spokesman added.
A
U.S. marine was killed and another injured on October 8 when attacked by
two Kuwaitis while conducting war games on Failaka island, 20 kilometers
(12 miles) east of Kuwait City.
A
day later, U.S. forces opened fire on a vehicle whose occupants
"drew a weapon and pointed it at" U.S. troops in a Humvee
all-terrain vehicle who were heading to their training area north of
Kuwait City.
Five
days later, the U.S. embassy in Kuwait said shots were fired from two
unidentified civilian sports utility vehicles at U.S. military units
near a northern Kuwait training area. There were no injuries.
While
condemning the Failaka shooting as a "terrorist" act, the
Kuwaiti authorities played down the two shooting incidents that
followed.
One
of the two assailants gunned down in the Failaka shooting had sworn
allegiance to Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, Interior Minister Sheikh
Mohammad Khaled al-Sabah has said.
Six
Kuwaitis are being questioned in connection with the deadly attack. The
suspects formed an "organization" that was planning to strike
at five other U.S. and foreign targets, the minister said.
U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are currently in the emirate
following up on the Failaka attack and probing possible security lapses.
As
of Saturday, Kuwait is restricting access to the entire northwestern
part of the emirate, one quarter of the country, in what it described as
a precaution during continuing joint Kuwaiti-American military
exercises.
Some
10,000 U.S. troops are based here and regularly conduct joint maneuvers
with the Kuwaiti armed forces in line with a defense pact signed after a
U.S.-led coalition launched the 1991 Gulf War that liberated Kuwait from
Iraqi occupation. Camp Doha is some 30 kilometers (18 miles)
north of Kuwait City.
In
another development in Kuwaiti-U.S. relations, the U.S. State Department
said Friday that Kuwait is on the verge of signing an accord with the
United States granting immunity to Americans charged with war crimes and
crimes against humanity by a new international court which is opposed by
Washington.
A
State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said
Kuwait could sign the accord next week.
Thirteen
other countries have already made similar accords with the United
States.
The
United States has been a strong opponent of the proposed new court,
expressing fears that it could be routinely used against U.S. nationals
and soldiers serving abroad because of the country's superpower role.
It
has launched a vast diplomatic campaign in recent months to get as many
countries as possible to sign an accord, made possible under the charter
setting up the international court, so that action cannot be taken
against U.S. nationals.
The
countries which have already signed the accord are: Afghanistan, the
Dominican Republic, Gambia, Honduras, Israel, Marshall islands,
Mauritania, Micronesia, Uzbekistan, Palau, Romania, Tajikistan and
Timor.
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