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Iraq bomber could be stateless, says Kuwait
Iraq said on Monday that its forces killed a Kuwaiti suicide driver in Al Qaim in Anbar province while he was attempting to go through the first barrier of the police directorate.
- Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
- Published: 12:24 November 24, 2009
- Image Credit: Gulf News
The man killed by Iraqi forces as he was driving a chlorine car in a suicide attack could be in fact a bidoon, not a Kuwait national as reported, Kuwaiti security officials said. Bidoon is a resident of the country who does not hold the citizenship.
Iraq said on Monday that its forces killed a Kuwaiti suicide driver in Al Qaim in Anbar province while he was attempting to go through the first barrier of the police directorate. A force from the 28th infantry division then managed to defuse the car bomb loaded with three tonnes of Chlorine and C4 as well as other chemical materials.
"The suicide driver carries the Kuwaiti nationality, and had in his possession a fake ID issued from Baiji," the Iraqi security said.
However, Kuwaiti security sources told Al Qabas newspaper that the bomber could be a bidoon, especially that Iraqi security forces have recently spotted a group of bidoon living in Kuwait and operating under Al Qaeda who entered Iraq via neighbouring countries.
Kuwaiti officials are now waiting for the final report of the investigation into the chlorine bomber and for his fingerprints, the paper said.
Last year, the US military said that Abdallah Saleh Al Ajmi, a 29-year-old Kuwaiti man who had spent three years in Guantanamo, was involved in one of three suicide bombings that killed seven Iraqi security forces in Mosul.
Reports estimate that up to 85,000 Iraqi refugees remained in Kuwait after its invasion and liberation in 1991. Thousands of refugees of Palestinian origin have joined them.
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