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Kuwait busts Iraq jihad ring
From correspondents in Kuwait City
July 26, 2004

KUWAIT said today it was questioning 11 people in connection with an alleged campaign to recruit volunteers to fight US forces in Iraq and that some had confessed to undergoing military training.

"Eleven people have been referred to the prosecution for investigation of their role in ... enlisting youth for so-called jihad (holy war) in Iraq," Interior Minister Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah said.

Authorities were still trying to track down a small number of people thought to be involved in the recruitment drive, he said.
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