Kuwait City - Kuwait has launched a blood donation campaign for victims of Tuesday's terror attacks in New York and Washington.
The official KUNA news agency said the decision was taken at a meeting of Kuwait's national security council devoted to examining "all information pertaining to the terrorist attacks" and chaired by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Sheikh Saad al-Abdallah Al Sabah.
The campaign is designed to "help victims of these painful events and show sympathy with the friendly American people in this human catastrophe".
During a visit to the US Embassy, which remained closed on Wednesday, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al Sabah reiterated Kuwait's condemnation of all forms of terrorism and extended his country's full material and moral support to the US.
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But a prominent Shiite cleric in Kuwait said the United States should revise its foreign policy following the attacks.
In a statement faxed to AFP, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Abdullah al-Habib said: "Despite our belief that those who stand behind such attacks are a bunch of gangsters, mafiosi and terrorists in the United States, America is, more than ever before, required to reconsider its policy in leading the world. It should especially rethink its policy with regard to the Middle East conflict."
The cleric offered his condolences to the families of those killed in the attacks but recalled the hundreds of Palestinians "who have fallen victim to Jewish killings, which have American support," during the year-long intifada.
"Violence only begets violence," he said. "The violent feelings against Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians, particularly by Jews in the US... will lead to the deaths of more innocent Americans, due to the greed of the Zionist lobby, which controls... political decision-making in the US."
Kuwait has condemned the deadly attacks and vowed to make up any resulting shortfall in oil on world crude markets. It has also put its armed forces on alert to "assist the friendly forces stationed in the country."
Kuwait, bound by a defence pact with the US since the end of the 1991 Gulf War, hosts some 4 500 American troops. - Sapa-AFP
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