KUWAIT CITY (AFP) — The prime minister of staunch US ally Kuwait, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed al-Ahmed al-Sabah, left for Washington on Sunday for wide-ranging talks with President George W. Bush, the official KUNA news agency said.
Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed al-Sabah, who is travelling with him, said that on the agenda are negotiations for a free trade agreement and the release of four Kuwaitis still detained at the US base in Guantanamo, Cuba.
The prime minister will also raise the issue of Kuwaiti Islamic charities, some of which are accused by Washington of links with Al-Qaeda.
In June, the US Treasury Department froze the assets of the Kuwaiti headquarters of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society on charges of funding terror and having links with Al-Qaeda.
The RIHS strongly denied the allegations and was supported by the Kuwaiti government.
Some 15,000 US troops are stationed in Kuwait which serves as the transit point for coalition troops going into and out of Iraq.
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