KUWAIT CITY: Kuwaiti authorities announced Tuesday they have arrested an Al-Qaeda-linked group that was planning to attack a key US military base in the emirate.
The Interior Ministry said in a brief statement that State Security detained a “terrorist network” of six Kuwaitis who gave “detailed confessions” about plans to bomb Camp Arifjan, the main US base in the country, as well as the headquarters of the country’s security agency, in addition to other facilities it did not name.
The statement did not provide any details. Kuwait’s Alrai daily quoted anonymous security sources on Tuesday as saying that the group had confessed to buying a truck which it intended to load with fertilizer, chemicals and gas cylinders and ram it into the camp.
It was unlikely the attack on the vast American logistics and supply facility in the desert south of the Kuwaiti capital would have been successful due to high security.
The US military in Kuwait declined to comment on the foiled plot.
There was no indication when the six suspects plan.
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Kuwait foils Al-Qaeda plot
