Police and troops in armored personnel carriers used explosives to blast their way into a concrete block home in the town of Sulaibiyah Saturday, capturing five suspected "terrorists" holed up inside.
The men surrendered after police sealed off the neighborhood and raided the house in Sulaibiyah, a mainly Bedouin area about 12 miles west of Kuwait City. No one was injured in the operation.
The Interior Ministry said two of the five men captured are Saudi Arabian citizens and three are Jordanian. All were wanted by Kuwaiti authorities.
Sporadic small arms gunfire and a large explosion broke the night air as a police helicopter hovered overhead, shining a spotlight onto the scene. Police said the explosion came from a charge troops used to demolish a door leading into the house.
Saturday's raid was the fifth confrontation this year between police and al-Qaeda-influenced activists accused of planning to attack Americans and Kuwaiti security forces.
