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Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Kuwait denies US troop pullout, says news agency hacked
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleKuwait denies reports that the United States had decided to withdraw its troops from the Gulf state, saying the Twitter account of its official news agency had been hacked.
The state-run Kuwait News Agency tweets that the Kuwaiti defense minister had been informed by the commander of US forces in the emirate of their intention to withdraw from the Arifjan base within three days.
The news, published in both Arabic and English, was deleted within minutes.
“The (Twitter) account of Kuwait News Agency was hacked… The report about the intention of the US troops to pull out is untrue,” government spokesman Tareq al-Mazrem says in a statement.
KUNA also says it had been hacked and notes that the report was not published on its general wire.
— AFP
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