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The Kuwaiti defense ministry said Sunday that Kuwaiti forces have arrested four Iraqi naval units over the past two days for planting mines in the Gulf.
Yousef al-Mulia, spokesman for the defense ministry, said in a statement that the Iraqi sailors were caught at Khour Abdallah, north the Arab Gulf.
He did not give the exact number of the Iraqi solders arrested, only adding that the soldiers were assigned of planting mines above and under the waters in the Gulf.
Mulia said such mines will damage Gulf and world navigation, warning that some of them are moving with water currents.
The Iraqi sailors were apparently trying to block the sailing of US and British warships which have fired cruise missiles against Iraqi targets.
The US-led forces launched the war on Iraq under the name of disarming Baghdad of weapons of mass destruction.
Kuwait, which is liberated from seven-month Iraqi occupation in 1991 by the US-led allied forces, has refused to participate in the US-British invasion of Iraq.
But it has served as a launch pad for the US-led war on Iraq by hosting 140,000 US and British troops.
(Xinhua News Agency March 23, 2003)
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