Kuwait makes 2nd complaint in 2 weeks to Iraq about border incidents

Kuwait's Foreign Ministry complained to Iraq Sunday, for the second time in less than two weeks, of repeated incursions from the Iraqi side of their shared frontier and attacks on Kuwaiti border police.

The state-owned Kuwait News Agency said the ministry undersecretary, Mohammed al-Roumi, handed a written protest to the Iraqi charge d'affaires and asked him for a "quick response" from the Iraqi government.

Kuwait had summoned the Iraqi diplomat, Hamed al-Sharifi, Aug. 23, to protest shooting at a police border patrol from the Iraqi side of the border.

The desert line was demarcated by the United Nations in 1993, two years after the Gulf War that liberated this small oil-rich state from a seven-month Iraqi occupation under former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. It gave Kuwait 11 oil wells, some farms and an old naval base formerly considered in Iraq.

KUNA did not elaborate on the new incidents. However, Al-Siyassah daily reported Sunday that armed individuals made two attempts Friday night to ambush Kuwaiti border patrols but they were thwarted. Officials could not be reached for comment.

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