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Kuwaiti Amir Reneges on Iranian Intel Deal

Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran have long boasted of their goals to export jihad to Muslim-majority nations that are not in tune with their brand of radical Islam. But now, a part-time intelligence operative has alleged to the Asian Tribune that Iranian intelligence agents were involved in an attempt to overthrow the government of Kuwait and murder members of the royal family, including Amir Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah, the nation’s head of state. The allegations also include a claim that the Kuwaiti government first encouraged the operatives to gather more intelligence on the matter—which activities resulted in one agent’s death—but then refused to provide agreed-upon payments or other forms of support, eventually suspending contacts.

and now today…..

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Thursday, September 11, 2008

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait security has arrested a senior intelligence officer for allegedly altering files to enable people from Iraq to enter the Gulf state despite being barred, newspapers reported on Wednesday. Interior Minister Sheikh Jaber Khaled al-Sabah was quoted as saying that the lieutenant colonel had been referred to the public prosecution for legal action after an internal probe found he had “collaborated with a neighboring country.”

The minister did not name the country but local media said it was Iraq.

Security service chief Major General Suleiman al-Muhailan told As-Siyassah newspaper that the officer was accused of “facilitating the entry of an Iraqi national” banned from entering Kuwait, by altering confidential security files. Muhailan said the officer is accused of receiving a 6,000 dinar (about $22,400 ) bribe to delete a security ban against the unnamed Iraqi, a charge he has denied.

Several newspapers quoted sources as saying the officer is accused of assisting a number of pro-Iranian Iraqi nationals to enter Kuwait by removing security bans against them.

A retired army officer was also arrested for acting as a “middle-man,” they said.

Under then-President Saddam Hussein, Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in August 1990 and occupied it for seven months before being driven out by a US-led coalition. Ties between the two Arab nations have been improving rapidly since Saddam was toppled after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and executed for crimes against humanity in December 2006.

On Monday, Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah accepted an invitation to visit Baghdad in what would be the first such trip in 18 years.