American-owned security firm in Kuwait killed 24 sniffer dogs after expiry of contract

An American-owned security firm in Kuwait has killed 24 sniffer dogs after expiry of its contract with a local oil company. The incident happened on June 17 and thee are a further 100 or so dogs at risk of being killed. This has been revealed by an animal rights group Kuwait Animal Rescue Unit. The owners have said that they had killed the dogs "humanely" because they were sick.
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 25 June 2016.

The US-owned company had been providing services to Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) and, as per the Kuwait Animal Rescue Unit, the security firm had killed 24 of its sniffer dogs after losing a contract with the oil company, which was apparently paid $9,900 monthly for each dog.
The security company continues to maintain that it humanely euthanized the dogs because they were old and sick and also suffering from conditions such as tumors and hip dysplasia while some others were just too aggressive. The dogs had been diagnosed with those issues two years ago and should have been eliminated at the time. It seems the company had tried to put the dogs up for adoption but did not succeed.


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4th of July – Americans must be vigilant about ISIS attacks

House Committee on Homeland Security has warned Americans to “remain vigilant” to homegrown terror threats on the 4th of July because the ISIS terrorist had committed three deadly attacks simultaneously within three hours on three continents by launching terror attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait.
By doing this, they have demonstrated that ISIS is not just a regionalized setup active in Iraq and Syria but is a global threat because they can conduct external operations easily since they are tech savvy and use the owes of the Internet.
This has been reported in foxnews.com date 28 June 2015.

In France, they attacked an American-owned industrial chemical plant near Lyon where they tried to blow up the factory and decapitated a person. In Kuwait City, it was a suicide bombing in one of the largest Shiite mosques in the area in which at least 24 people have been killed. And, in Tunisia, the target was a beach resort in which at least 27 persons were killed.
As far as America is concerned, the Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI has already arrested 10 U.S. citizens who were plotting attacks on American soil over the past three weeks. Many of the calls came from social media messages, Internet-based propaganda and other digital domains.
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US is sending military equipment ex-Afghanistan to Iraq to fight the ISIS

#USMilitary #ISIS #Kuwait #Afghanistan With the possibilities of a war with the ISIS imminent, the US Military has been moving military equipment to Kuwait so that these can be shipped across the border into Iraq for possible use in a coordinated offensive against the terrorist group Islamic State, according.
It is reported that the gear is being housed near a busy commercial port and consists of nearly 3100 vehicles – most of these are ambush-protected vehicles known as MRAPs, Apart from these, there are electronic equipment and other supplies. The gear, which is primarily from the U.S. Army, will be repaired and assessed for use depending on where these are to be deployed.
The war is against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
The equipment is being progressively moved to prepare for a major offensive in order to help Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take back territory from Islamic State. No time frame has been declared.
A large portion of this stockpile is from Afghanistan - the original plan of destroying, selling or giving away as much as $7 billion worth of equipment in Afghanistan to aid the war effort there, had been scrapped due to the rise of ISIS. And – those equipment are now being diverted to Iraq.
It seems nearly 140,000 people and 333,000 tons of cargo shipments of thousands of vehicles and 20-foot shipping containers have been moved out of Afghanistan so far this year.