A planned attack on the hotly disputed Mubarak Port in Kuwait is the latest incident in a long line of protests against the development, which, Baghdad claims, will strangle its shipping lanes.
A court spokesman said, "The police have arrested six people accused of preparing an attack on Mubarak port," according to Agence France Presse (AFP). However, it is not yet clear if the suspects are members of a particular group and no trial date has been given.
A planned attack on the hotly disputed Mubarak Port in Kuwait is the latest incident in a long line of protests against the development, which, Baghdad claims, will strangle its shipping lanes.
A court spokesman said, "The police have arrested six people accused of preparing an attack on Mubarak port," according to Agence France Presse (AFP). However, it is not yet clear if the suspects are members of a particular group and no trial date has been given.
The Mubarak al-Kabir project is being built on Boubyan Island, located in the narrow Khor Abdullah waterway. The difficulty for Iraq is that this is the narrow entrance to the Gulf, the exit point for the majority of its oil exports.
There have been a number of politically heated moments in relation to the development. There were even threats by Iraq that they would ask the UN to prosecute Kuwait if the new port impacted Iraqi activities.
Futher, last August, the Kuwaiti press reported Iraqi MP Kadhim Al-Shammari as saying Iraqi militant groups could "easily invade Kuwait" if the port was built. However, Al-Shammari said his quotes had been misinterpreted.
Although September saw a government official allaying fears by saying that a technical review by Iraqi investigators showed the port wouldn’t affect navigation, October saw groups of Iraqis gathering to protest the development.
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