Arabic News Weekly Edition for Kuwait, 1/20/2003
Weekly Edition, Kuwait - Week of January 20, 2003
- Washington warns against attacks by Islamist cells in Kuwait
there are many Osama bin Laden sympathizers in the Arab states, because they despise US policy towards the region, and see in Osama bin Laden a hero for standing up to the USA. Some polls last year showed some 95 percent in Saudi Arabia support Bin Laden, while 74 percent in Kuwait view Bin Laden as a hero. Kuwait-USA, Politics, 1/25/2003 - US to reduce number of embassy staff in Kuwait
An American official said in Washington on Thursday that the US Department of State is discussing the possibility of reducing the number of the American embassy staff in Kuwait and to recommend that US citizens leave Kuwait because of the risks of the occurrence of new attacks. Kuwait-USA, Politics, 1/25/2003 - Talks on the missing between Iraq, Kuwait ends without results
Iraqi and Kuwaiti experts have ended two days of intensive talks in Amman yesterday under the patronage of the ICRC and with the participation of Saudi Arabian observers without reaching crucial results on the fate of missing and prisoners in each of the two states following the Gulf war in 1991. Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 1/24/2003 - US calls on its citizens in Saudi Arabia to be cautious; Kuwait arrests suspected Islamists
Kuwait yesterday stressed that its police is chasing, in collaboration with American military investigators, the executors of Tuesday's attack against Americans of whom one was killed and another wounded, adding that the Kuwaiti police has already questioned two persons suspected to be the two main convicts in the incident. Kuwait-USA, Politics, 1/23/2003 - Iraqi, Kuwaiti representatives meet today on Gulf war missing
Representatives from Iraq and Kuwait will meet today to continue discussing the issue of the missing in the second Gulf war. Iraq-Kuwait, Politics, 1/22/2003 - One American soldier killed, another wounded in Kuwait
A Kuwaiti security source has announced that one American soldier was killed and another was wounded in a fire launching incident to the north of the city of Kuwait yesterday. Kuwait-USA, Politics, 1/22/2003 - US ambassador urges investigation into the killers of American soldier in Kuwait Kuwait-USA, Politics, 1/22/2003
- Kuwait, Armenia sign memorandum of understanding
Kuwait and Armenia signed yesterday a memorandum of understanding concerning the establishment of regular bilateral consultations in order to discuss means of expanding and deepening ties of cooperation in all fields. Kuwait-Armenia, Politics, 1/21/2003 - UN announces progress in issue of Gulf war missing
The UN coordinator for missing and properties Yuli Forontsov announced on Saturday a breakthrough in the negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait concerning the issue of the missing. Iraq-Kuwait, Politics, 1/20/2003