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Mo Feb 7 -

HERE COMES THE CANDYMAN -

*A Kuwaiti Interior Ministry official confirmed a report that militant suspects captured in recent police raids confessed to planning to use ice cream trucks packed with explosives to attack US military convoys traveling to Iraq...

On Sunday, most of the vans had disappeared from major highways and increased numbers of police cars were monitoring the roads. The snack vans, which also sell ice, are common on highways at this time of year when many Kuwaitis drive into the desert to camp...

One woman captured Saturday, who was identified as a "non-Kuwaiti," was "hiding a machine-gun under her abaya," according to an official...

In other news, security forces have been strategizing to arrest Khaled Al-Dousari and another wanted mastermind terrorist Mohsen Al-Fadhli... The same sources said Dousari is holding three passports-- Kuwaiti, Saudi and Iraqi-- all bearing different names...

It was also reported that the terrorists are financed by a Saudi citizen, [only] identified as Abu Zaid.*

-- Excerpts with redactions from:
:: ARAB TIMES - KUWAIT :::

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