Reply #4: Iraqi militants threaten Kuwait on border; Group vows attacks in Kuwait

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BASRA, Iraq (AP): A previously unknown Shiite group warned Kuwait on Sunday to pull its troops back to the pre-1991 border or face attacks. The statement by Islamic Jihad, read by a masked man in a video obtained on Sunday by The Associated Press, came amid criticism by some Iraqi officials of Kuwaitis trying to encroach on Iraqi land. An Iraqi legislator who visited Kuwait last month said he saw “no real problem” between the two countries over the border that were redrawn by the United Nations after the 1991 Gulf War. “We call them to return to the pre-1991 border otherwise we will attack border posts, border patrols and carry out attacks inside Kuwait,” said the masked man sitting between two other masked gunmen.

“We will also attack Kuwaiti citizens in Iraq.” Hundreds of Iraqis who grow vegetables and date palms in the Umm Qasr part of the border have staged demonstrations against a metal barrier that Kuwait is building along the frontier. During one protest last month, shots were fired into Kuwait, but Kuwaiti border guards did not return fire. In 1993, two years after a US-led coalition drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, a UN border demarcation commission redrew the frontier. The upshot was that Kuwait received 11 oil wells, some farms and an old naval base that used to be in Iraq. Iraq and Kuwait resumed relations and reopened their border after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.

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