{"id":68358,"date":"2016-10-09T10:04:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T14:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68358"},"modified":"2016-10-09T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T14:04:17","slug":"bomber-attacks-us-troops-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68358","title":{"rendered":"Bomber attacks US troops in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/kuwait-arrests-egyptian-planning-terrorist-act\/2016\/10\/08\/05828e58-8d7b-11e6-8cdc-4fbb1973b506_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>, a bomber with a garbage truck loaded with explosives rammed into a truck carrying 5 US troops in Kuwait injuring only the driver of the explosives-laden truck;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The attempted attack is the first by the Islamic State group to target American troops in the tiny, oil-rich emirate that\u2019s a stalwart U.S. ally. It comes as authorities already increased security ahead of a major Shiite commemoration in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait\u2019s Interior Ministry identified the attacker as Ibrahim Sulaiman, born in 1988, and published a picture of the alleged assailant in a hospital bed, a bruise beneath his right eye. The ministry said the five soldiers were not injured. It said Sulaiman had multiple fractures and injuries.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The reported failed attack comes ahead of the Shiite commemoration of Ashoura, which marks the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwaiti police have promised increased security ahead of Ashoura. Two Iranians were arrested in recent days for taking \u201csuspicious\u201d photographs ahead of the commemoration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to AW1Ed for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Post, a bomber with a garbage truck loaded with explosives rammed into &hellip; <a title=\"Bomber attacks US troops in Kuwait\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68358\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bomber attacks US troops in Kuwait<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}