Two U.S. Soldiers Shot and Wounded in Kuwait

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[Latest is that it was a Kuwaiti solder who shot the soldiers and he escaped into Saudi Arabia.]

Thu November 21, 2002 05:04 AM ET

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Unknown attackers shot and wounded two U.S. soldiers in Kuwait Thursday, the U.S. military said, in the latest in a series of shooting incidents targeting U.S. troops training in Kuwait.

"Two U.S. soldiers were shot at by unknown assailants," a U.S. military spokesman said. "They are in a serious but stable condition. One of them was shot in the face, the other in the shoulder. Neither injury is life-threatening."

The spokesman said the soldiers had been shot around 10:30 a.m. while traveling between the Camp Doha military base on the northern outskirts of Kuwait city and a base at Arifjan in southern Kuwait.

Some 10,000 U.S. troops are in Kuwait for the Operation Desert Spring training exercise.

Last month two Kuwaitis attacked U.S. Marines training on a Kuwaiti island, killing one and wounding another. Shots have also been fired at U.S. soldiers training in the desert, although some Kuwaiti officials blame bird hunters.

The incidents coincide with mounting tension over a possible U.S.-led war in neighboring Iraq -- likely to feature U.S. troops based in Kuwait -- if Iraq does not satisfy Washington's demand that it prove itself free of weapons of mass destruction.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2002


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