Date : 11/01/2002
KUWAITI PRISONER IN AFGHANISTAN RETURNS HOME SOON -- JARALLAH
KUWAIT, JAN 11 (KUNA) -- KUWAIT'S FOREIGN UNDERSECRETARY KHALED AL-JARALLAH
SAID FRIDAY TEENAGE KUWAITI PRISONER, MOHAMMAD AL-ENEZI, WOULD RETURN HOME
SOON FROM AFGHANISTAN.
"PRISONER AL-ENEZI IS IN A GOOD HEALTH CONDITION ... WE HAVE REACHED THE
FINAL STAGES OF OUR MEASURES TO BRING HIM BACK," AL-JARALLAH TOLD REPORTERS
WHILE RECEIVING U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE WILLIAM BURNS AT THE AIRPORT.
AL-ENEZI, WHO LEFT FOR AFGHANISTAN WITH HIS FATHER WAS FOUND INJURED IN THE
WAR-TORN COUNTRY. HIS FATHER DIED IN THE AMERICAN STRIKES AGAINST AL-QAEDA
POSITIONS.
ON THE FATE OF KUWAITI PRISONERS IN AFGHANISTAN, AL-JARALLAH SAID "CONTACTS
WERE ONGOING WITH OUR EMBASSY IN PAKISTAN AND THE (INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF)
RED CROSS ... WE ARE TRYING BY ALL MEANS TO REACH THEM AND SECURE THEIR RETURN
TO KUWAIT." (END)
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