[Reuters-Washington Post] Eman Goma - Detained members of an al-Qaeda-linked group planned to attack Kuwait's Shuaiba oil refinery during Ramadan, a security official said on Wednesday. Kuwait said on Tuesday it had foiled a plan by the six-member al-Qaeda-linked network to bomb the U.S. Army camp of Arifjan, state security headquarters, and "important facilities." The cell used Google Earth to acquire images of the refinery, the camp and a state security building, al-Anbaa newspaper reported on Wednesday. Al-Qaeda leaders have repeatedly called for attacks on oil facilities and Western interests in the Gulf. Political analyst Shafiq Ghabra says the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq has not discouraged al-Qaeda from planning attacks on U.S.-allied Arab countries
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