US troops rammed in Kuwait in what is described as terrorist attack

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — American troops deployed in Kuwait who were intentionally rammed by an Egyptian man over the weekend pulled their attacker from his burning vehicle after it caught fire, the U.S. Embassy said Sunday.

The embassy described the incident on a Kuwaiti highway Saturday that was initially thought to be a traffic accident as “an attempted terrorist attack.” All three uniformed U.S. military personnel in the truck that was struck escaped unharmed, the embassy said.

The incapacitated attacker, identified by Kuwaiti authorities as Ibrahim Sulaiman, born in 1988, was hospitalized and in police custody.

Kuwaiti authorities had earlier said five American soldiers were involved. The Interior Ministry published pictures of the aftermath of the crash showing a wrecked garbage truck along with items it described as a suicide belt loaded with shrapnel. The white pickup truck apparently carrying the soldiers had the left side of its bed smashed in.

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