Kuwait sentences 3 to death for spying for Iran

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Reuters/Arab News:

A Kuwaiti criminal court has sentenced three people to death for being part of an alleged Iranian spy ring in the Gulf Arab state, Dubai-based Al Arabiya television said on Tuesday.

The station did not give further details on a case that has strained relations between Kuwait and Tehran.

Kuwait, which banned media coverage of the case, has said only that several people were detained in an unspecified security probe.

Kuwaiti media said in May 2010 authorities had detained a number of people — Kuwaitis and foreigners — suspected of spying for Iran. The independent Al-Qabas daily said they were accused of gathering information on Kuwaiti and US military sites for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

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My guess is they were working on Iran operations in Iraq and trying to get info on how the US forces operated in supplying its forces in Iraq. The Kuwaitis certainly treated the matter as grave and serious.
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