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250 U.S. Military in Kuwait
Sickened
KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Some 250
U.S. military personnel
have been treated for food poisoning after eating at a
camp south of Kuwait City, and two of them are
hospitalized, an American military spokesman said
Wednesday.
The Army soldiers, Navy sailors and Marines were
treated Monday for symptoms of food poisoning at the
Oraifijan installation and "released back to work within
24 hours," Sgt. First Class David Dismukes said.
"We don't know at this point what it is," Dismukes told
The Associated Press, declining to say if terrorism was
suspected. He said laboratory test results were expected
later Wednesday.
"Only two have been admitted to the Kuwait Armed
Forces Hospital for further evaluation," he said,
declining to provide any further information about their
condition.
U.S. contractor Brown and Root provides food to the
facility, about 35 miles south of Kuwait City. The
company also does cleaning and general labor,
Dismukes said.
There are around 12,000 U.S. military in Kuwait, a major
ally of Washington in the Gulf. Most are involved in
exercises under a defense pact signed after the 1991
Gulf War that liberated Kuwait from a seven-month Iraqi
occupation.
A U.S. Marine was killed and a second was wounded
Oct. 8 when two Kuwaiti Muslim fundamentalists opened
fire on a group of Marines taking a break from training
on the island of Failaka. The attackers were killed by
other Marines. On Nov. 21, a Kuwaiti policeman shot
and seriously injured two U.S. soldiers after stopping
their car on a highway.
Kuwait could become a launching pad for a U.S. attack
on Iraq if the United Nations approves.
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