Kuwaiti security authorities have broken up three Islamic State;Ministry
Kuwaiti security authorities have broken up three Islamic State;Ministry
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Monday; July 4, 2016: Today, the interior ministry has said that, “Kuwaiti security authorities have broken up three Islamic State (ISIS) cells plotting "terror" attacks in the oil-rich Gulf state”

Statement release by ministry said, “While, the five Kuwaiti nationals has been detained, involving a woman and a policeman, who all admitted to plotting attacks alongside a Shiite mosque and an interior ministry target”

Ministry also said that, “Kuwaiti police are still looking for a Gulf man and an Asian who assisted one of the cells. The action against the Islamist cells comes a year after an ISIS-linked Saudi suicide bomber blew him up in a Shiite mosque, killing 26 worshippers in the worst attack in Kuwait. A court sentenced one man to death and jailed eight others for assisting the Saudi bomber.”

“Among those arrested in the latest police action was 18-year old Talal Raja who confessed to have been plotting a suicide attack against a Shiite mosque and an interior ministry installation by the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan tomorrow”, the ministry added.

The second cell consisted of a mother and son who were arrested in Syria in the ISIS-controlled Riga and brought back to Kuwait, the ministry said.

As per the ministry further added, “The 28-year old son had cut short his petroleum engineering study in Britain to join the ISIS after his younger brother was killed while fighting for the group in Iraq, the ministry said. The third cell comprised of two Kuwaitis, one of them policemen, who were seized along with two Klashnikov rifles and ammunition. The pair confessed to plotting attacks in the country”.

 

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