Kuwait Announces Break-Up of Truck Bombing Plot
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
The Associated Press reports today that a Kuwaiti Interior Ministry official confirmed that suspected terrorists captured in recent police raids confessed that they were planning to use ice cream trucks packed with explosives to attack U.S. military convoys traveling to Iraq. According to the AP, "Members of a militant group told interrogators they wanted to park the ice cream and snack vans loaded with explosives next to highways and detonate them as U.S. military convoys traveling to and from Iraq passed." Yesterday, most of the snack vans had been removed from Kuwait's highways, and police monitoring of the roads had been stepped up.
This latest announcement that Kuwait had foiled a truck bombing plot comes in the midst of a general crackdown on suspected terrorists throughout the country. One Kuwaiti official reports that forty suspects have been handed over to prosecutors since the crackdown began last month. The crackdown has also seen four deadly shootouts between Kuwaiti security forces and suspects.
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