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Defence Minister David McGuinty said he did not know about a strike on an air base in Kuwait where members of the Canadian Armed Forces were stationed, until after it was first reported by a media outlet. “No, I didn’t know about it before La Presse reported on it,” McGuinty said, in a response to a question about whether he knew about the strike before the story was published, in a press conference in Kitchener, Ont. McGuinty’s comments come one week after Canadians and members of Parliament only learned of an attack on a Canadian section of the Ali Al-salem Air Base in Kuwait...