Kuwaiti authorities detained a teenager Thursday who had explosives in his car near a shopping center and residential high-rise where some U.S. military personnel live just outside Kuwait City, Kuwaiti government officials said.
The 17-year-old male was arrested near the Alia and Ghalia towers in Fintas, somes 25 kms south of Kuwait City, an Interior Ministry official said. Several U.S. military personnel live in the building.
The youth had 10 bottles filled with gasoline, each with a cloth fuse, in his car, and told police he had received orders from Pakistan over the Internet to place the explosives in the towers, AP reported.
However, the youth apparently reported the suspicious vehicle himself, waited in the area and, when approached by police, admitted to driving the car containing the explosives, the official said.
The teen was arrested, he said. The car belonged to the teen's father, according to the Kuwait News Agency. (Albawaba.com)
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