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KUWAIT (AP) – Two Kuwaiti gunmen in a pickup truck fired on U.S. forces during war games today on an uninhabited island in the Persian Gulf, killing one marine and wounding another in what the Kuwaiti government called a “terrorist act.” The assailants were killed by American troops. The Pentagon said the assailants pulled up to a group of marines conducting a live-fire exercise on Failaka Island off Kuwait’s coast and attacked with small-arms fire. They then drove to another site, stopped and opened fire again before being killed by marines who returned fire, the Pentagon said. The marines later found three AK-47s and ammunition inside the vehicle, according to a statement released in Washington by the Bahrain-based U.S. 5th Fleet. It said the injured marine was hit in the arm. In a brief statement, the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry condemned the attack and identified the assailants as Anas al-Kandari, born in 1981, and Jassem al-Hajiri, born in 1976. It said both were Kuwaiti civilians.
