KUWAIT: AMERICAN DAVID CARRAWAY INJURED IN RECENT SHOOTING ATTACK LEAVES HOSPITAL IN KUWAIT CITY / U.S GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS ARRIVES TO INSPECT U.S. FORCES

Record ID: 190175

  • Title: KUWAIT: AMERICAN DAVID CARRAWAY INJURED IN RECENT SHOOTING ATTACK LEAVES HOSPITAL IN KUWAIT CITY / U.S GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS ARRIVES TO INSPECT U.S. FORCES
  • Date: 24th January 2003
  • Summary: (W6) KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT (JANUARY 24, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. MV: HOSPITAL PARKING LOT WITH PERSON PUSHING A WHEELCHAIR 0.05 2. SCU: SIGN FOR HOSPITAL DIRECTING VISITORS TO VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS 0.09 3. SV: DAVID CARRAWAY, WOUNDED AMERICAN, BEING BROUGHT OUT OF HOSPITAL ON A STRETCHER 0.13 4. SV: (SOUNDBITE)(English) DAVID CARRAWAY SAYING: "I'm getting better." (Reporter question: Tell us what happened out there. What do you remember?) "I don't remember anything. I was stopped a red light, did not see anyone. We were hit with the first volley of machine gun fire, and at that point I wasn't able to ... (cut-off as paramedics try to steer stretcher)" (Reporter question: Where are you going? Germany?) (Carraway nods) "I feel great." 0.33 5. SV: CARRAWAY BEING LOADED INTO AMBULANCE 0.38 6. CU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) DAVID CARRAWAY SAYING: "I don't think the guys who did this would be able to comprehend anything I could say." 0.56 7. SCU: CARRAWAY INSIDE AMBULANCE 1.01 8. PAN: AMBULANCE LEAVING 1.10 9. SV: (SOUNDBITE)(English) U.S. AMBASSADOR RICHARD JONES SAYING: "We have not received any specific threats but we know that there are several of what we call Afghan-Kuwaitis in the country. I think there are probably 40 or so that we know went to Afghanistan, were trained in Afghanistan and two different cells involving Afghan-Kuwaitis have now struck against Americans. So, unfortunately we have to assume that there are other cells out there." 1.40 10. SV'S: U.S. AMBASSADOR RICHARD JONES WALKING OUT OF HOSPITAL AND BEING DRIVEN AWAY (2 SHOTS) 1.54 (W5) KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT (JANUARY 24, 2003) (REUTERS) 11. SV'S: HEAD OF U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS GETTING OFF THE PLANE / FRANKS BEING GREETED BY VARIOUS MILITARY OFFICIALS (2 SHOTS) 2.38 12. SV: FRANKS WALKING ON THE TARMAC 2.43 13. VARIOUS OF FRANKS MEETING KUWAITI OFFICIALS (3 SHOTS) 3.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT
  • Country: Kuwait
  • Reuters ID: LVA9I318R23APJF8D7P55B6RUCE2
  • Story Text: David Carraway, an American wounded in the attack in
    Kuwait City on Tuesday has been released from hospital. He
    received multiple gunshot wounds when a hail of automatic
    rifle fire hit a car he was travelling in on the outskirts of
    the Kuwait City.


    As David Carraway was wheeled out of hospital on
    Friday (January 24) he said he was getting better and tried to
    offer journalists details of the shooting.

    "I don't remember anything. I was stopped a red light, did
    not see anyone. We were hit with the first volley of machine
    gun fire," he said.

    A colleague of Carraway's was killed in the ambush near a
    U.S. base in Kuwait where Washington is preparing for a
    possible war on Iraq.

    They were hit near the main U.S. army base in the Gulf
    country, which has let in 15,000 U.S. troops ahead of possible
    military action.

    An embassy source said the two men were civilian employees
    of the U.S. Department of Defence.

    The official Kuwaiti news agency KUNA said on Thursday
    (January 23) that the man suspected of carrying out Tuesday's
    (January 21) attack, Sami Mohammed al-Mutairi, had confessed
    to police and told them he had adopted the ideology of al
    Qaeda, the militant Islamist group led by Saudi-born Osama bin
    Laden.

    But little is known about the attacker.

    Speaking at the hospital, U.S. ambassador Richard Jones
    said the threats could be coming from anti-American Kuwaitis
    who have been trained in Afghanistan.

    "We have not received any specific threats but we know
    that there are several of what we call Afghan-Kuwaitis in the
    country. I think there are probably 40 or so that we know went
    to Afghanistan, were trained in Afghanistan and two different
    cells involving Afghan-Kuwaitis have now struck against
    Americans. So, unfortunately we have to assume that there are
    other cells out there."
    One U.S. official said on Thursday (January 23) that the
    U.S. State Department is thinking of reducing staff at its
    embassy in Kuwait and advising Americans to consider leaving
    because of a series of attacks on Americans.

    Americans have been the targets in three attacks in Kuwait
    since October. Two Americans have been killed.

    In November, a Kuwaiti policeman shot and seriously
    wounded two U.S. soldiers on a highway south of Kuwait City
    and the previous month two Kuwaitis attacked U.S. Marines
    training on an island, killing one. There have also been
    several reports of shots fired at U.S. troops training in the
    Kuwaiti desert.

    General Tommy Franks, head of the U.S. Central Command,
    the man expected to lead any invasion of Iraq arrived in
    Kuwait on Friday (January 24) to inspect U.S. forces based in
    the country.

    Franks met the Kuwaiti Chief of Staff Fahdal Aameer and
    commanders of the U.S. military personnel based in Kuwait.


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