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...students blew themselves up trying to bomb a US Information Service building in Manila. FBI laboratory scientists who examined an unexploded bomb recovered in 1991 from the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Jakarta, a second device intercepted by Turkish authorities and a third bomb seized in April, 1993, by Kuwaiti police when they arrested 10 Iraqis for plotting to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush determined, says a retired FBI agent, that "the wiring board was done by the same person." The conclusion: all four devices were built by Baghdad...
...reporter Daniel Pearl a year ago in Karachi. But the mystery of who wielded the knife that beheaded Pearl is still unsolved. Now Pakistani police sources tell TIME that at least one witness says Pearl's throat was slit by a top al-Qaeda terrorist, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. A Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent, Mohammed is believed by U.S. authorities to have been a key organizer of the Sept. 11 hijackings...
...They've arranged for the local department of motor vehicles to offer driving tests in the many languages of Army wives, like Korean. They instruct families about what not to stick in the care packages they send over: any overtly religious books or objects likely to give offense to Kuwaiti Muslims, any pork products, any magazine with revealing pictures of women, whether it's Maxim or Vogue; absolutely no alcohol...
KUWAIT While the Kuwaiti government still seethes over Saddam's 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait and is worried about a repeat takeover, it says it will not take part in the "war drum-beating" because it is concerned about Iraqi civilian losses in an invasion. Still, it hosts a variety of U.S. military installations and has given the U.S. virtual carte blanche to use its territory...
...threat of war with Iraq has raised tensions in Kuwait. Last week Kuwaiti police arrested a Kuwaiti National Guardsman on charges of spying for Iraq. Police say the man, Mohammed Hamad Fahd al-Juwai'ed, had provided the Iraqis with security and military information, monitored movements of Senior Kuwaiti officials and planned to carry out terrorist acts...