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U.S. soldier found dead in Kuwait base
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-19 20:34
A U.S. soldier has died in a noncombat-related incident at an American base
in this Gulf state, and an investigation is under way, the military said
Tuesday.
The soldier's body was found Tuesday at Camp Arifjan, south of Kuwait City,
and his identity was being withheld pending notification of relatives, the
military said.
Some 10,000 U.S. troops are based in Kuwait as part of a defense pact with
Washington signed after the 1991 Gulf War liberated this country from a
seven-month Iraqi occupation under Saddam Hussein.
This small oil-rich state in the Gulf was the launching pad for the 2003
invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam's regime and is still a major logistical
base for American and other coalition forces serving in Iraq.
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