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Wednesday, April 14, 2010    

Kuwait on high alert for airline terror hijackings

ABU DHABI — Kuwait has placed its security forces on high alert amid intelligence that Iran could have ordered its proxies to hijack and destroy Gulf passenger jets.   

Kuwaiti sources said the sheikdom's intelligence community was taking seriously reports that Iran had ordered proxies to hijack Kuwaiti or passenger planes from other Gulf Cooperation Council states. They said the alert warned that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) wanted to destroy these aircraft either in Iraq or Iran.

"There are reports of an imminent IRGC-sponsored attack on Gulf civil aviation," a Kuwaiti source said.


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On April 10, the Kuwaiti daily Al Watan reported that Kuwait International Airport was placed on high alert. The newspaper said security forces were ordered to monitor air traffic to Kuwait, particularly passenger planes from neighboring Iraq.

The Iranian opposition has asserted the IRGC was preparing a unit to conduct suicide strikes in GCC states, with targets to include government and military facilities. The Ahwazi Islamic Sunni Organization, said to receive support from neighboring Iraq, said the purported IRGC unit was trained in several camps in Iran to employ such explosives as C4.

The Kuwaiti sources said the Defense Ministry and Interior Ministry were cooperating in preventing any air strike on Kuwait. They said names of passengers boarding or disembarking — particularly those of foreign Arab nationals — were being closely examined.

Kuwait has reported IRGC activities throughout GCC states. In March, Bahrain and Kuwait cooperated in the investigation of an alleged IRGC-sponsored ring said to have laundered money for insurgency networks in the Gulf region.

"There is close cooperation between GCC states in response to this threat," the Kuwaiti source said.



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