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Kuwait's KUNA says hacked after false report on US troop pullout

by Daily Sabah with AFP

ISTANBUL Jan 08, 2020 - 6:33 pm GMT+3
by Daily Sabah with AFP Jan 08, 2020 6:33 pm

Kuwait on Wednesday denied reports that the United States had decided to withdraw its troops from the Gulf state, saying the Twitter account of its official news agency had been hacked.

The state-run Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) tweeted that the Kuwaiti defense minister had been informed by the commander of U.S. forces in the emirate of their intention to withdraw from the Arifjan base within three days.

The news, published in both Arabic and English, was deleted within minutes.

"The (Twitter) account of Kuwait News Agency was hacked ... The report about the intention of the U.S. troops to pull out is untrue," government spokesman Tareq al-Mazrem said in a statement.

KUNA also said it had been hacked and noted that the report was not published on its general wire.

The United States said Friday that it was deploying up to 3,500 more troops to the Middle East with reprisals expected after an American drone killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad.

The Kuwait incident comes after a U.S. letter apparently signaling a pullout of forces from Iraq caused alarm, before the White House and the Pentagon said there were no such plans and that the letter was merely a draft.

Kuwait's Arifjan Base, which lies 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of the capital and close to the border with Saudi Arabia, is the main U.S. base in Kuwait. It houses several thousand U.S. troops and serves as a military transit point to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kuwait and the United States are bound by a 10-year defense pact that expires in 2022.

The pact was originally signed following the first Gulf War in 1991, after a U.S.-led international force expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait, ending seven months of occupation.

A hacking incident involving Qatar News Agency and the Gulf country's leading broadcaster Al Jazeera in May 2017 was one of the final straws that led Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt to break off ties with Doha following long-running disagreements on regional policies.

Comments attributed to Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani expressing support for Iran and Hezbollah were published in the hacking.

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