• Some security sources described him as the spiritual leader of al Qaeda in Kuwait.
• Amer al-Enezi, arrested late last month, died overnight at a military hospital due to a "collapse in blood circulation," Lieutenant Colonel Adel al-Hashash of the Interior Ministry told the state news agency KUNA.

Security sources said Enezi's death would not halt the activities of sympathizers of Osama bin Laden in Kuwait, who are bent on destabilizing the staunch U.S. ally and key oil producer. Security sources said Enezi, a Kuwaiti, had confessed that militants were planning to attack U.S. military convoys and other American targets as well as Kuwaiti security forces in suicide bombings using booby-trapped vehicles. Enezi had been interrogated by police since his capture on January 31 after a gunbattle in which five militants and a policeman were killed, and was suspected of involvement in other deadly clashes between militants and security forces last month.