Armed Group threatens companies building Kuwait’s Mubarak Port to force them stop work

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The underground Hizbullah Militia in Iraq have threatened the companies, building Kuwait ’s Mubarak Port on the Gulf to stop work there, demanding the Iraqi government to “take necessary positions to stop the work.”   “We warn the companies working in the construction of the Kuwaiti Mubarak Port ’s project against continuing its work,” al-Sharq al-Awasat ( Middle East ) Newspaper quoted a statement by Hizbullah Militia as saying.   “The Iraqi people won’t forget what the Kuwiti government is doing now, through its building of a port that will strangle Iraq ’s people and land,” the statement added, calling on the Iraqi government to “press on the Kuwaiti side and to take necessary positions that would stop Kuwait ’s government to target Iraq ’s people and land.”   Kuwait is striving to build a large port to strengthen its trade position, in front of the port Iraq is striving to build, thing that had created criticism and anxiety by Iraqi experts and politicians, pointing out that the Kuwaiti port shall affect navigation in Iraqi ports and strangle the naval passage, warning from its impacts on the relations between both countries.   Noteworthy is that Hizbullah Militia had announced its first operations in Baghdad at the end of 2003, when they attacked an American Army patrol in eastern Baghdad’s Baladiyat District, behind the Canal Hotel, that was used by the U.S. forces as their headquarters, that had been headquarters of the UN and the Inspection Committees before Iraq’s invasion by the U.S.-led forces in 2003.   SKH (RT) 550