Kuwait said this evening its security forces had arrested three Kuwaitis for allegedly planning attacks on US forces training in the Gulf state for a possible war on neighboring Iraq.
An Interior Ministry official told the state-run news agency KUNA that arms and ammunition were seized during the arrests.
The official named the three men as Ahmad Mutlaq Nasser al-Mutairi, aged about 29; Abdullah Mutlaq Nasser al-Mutairi, about 32; and Mussaed Huran Shebib al-Anzi, who was about 28.
"The Interior Ministry said...the three Kuwaitis were preparing plans to carry out terrorist attacks against American forces in the country," the agency said.
A US marine and an American civilian working for the military have been killed in a string of attacks on Americans in the Gulf Arab state in recent months.
Tens of thousands of U.S. forces are training in Kuwait, a close US ally, for a possible attack on Iraq over Baghdad's alleged weapons of mass destruction. Iraq denies it has any such weapons.
