A senior member of the ruling Al-Sabah family warned of extremist groups operating under cover in Kuwait, with "sleeper cells" in the security and military agencies, in comments published Tuesday. "Extremist groups here are like fire under ashes. There are sleeper cells ... in the security and military agencies of this country," Sheikh Saud Nasser Al-Sabah said in Al-Seyassah newspaper. "We have warned of this for years and we will uncover more of these cells in the future," said the former information and oil minister. Islamist groups, meanwhile, condemned the shooting calling it a terrorist attack.
"The Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM) strongly condemns the shooting and the killing of two security men ... What happened is an unprecedented terrorist attack in Kuwait," said an ICM statement. Islamist MP Walid Al-Tabtabai said the attack was "rejected by Islamic Sharia (law) and morals ... and those who embrace this terrorist ideology are isolated individuals." Kuwaiti MPs urged their government Tuesday to deal firmly with terrorists, a day after suspected Islamist militants killed two security officers in a gunfight. "This is an unjustified terrorist attack ... The government should firmly fight these terrorists ... who have no political aims," liberal MP Mohammed Al-Saqer, head of parliament's foreign relations committee, told reporters. |