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| Arabia |
| Kuwait Suspect Says IS Planned Attacks |
| 2017-04-27 |
| [An Nahar] A suspected member of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group has confessed to plotting attacks on targets in Kuwait including the U.S. military and a Shiite religious hall, local media reported Wednesday. Judicial sources said Hussein al-Dhafiri, incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! with his wife in the Philippines last month, confessed to planning suicide kabooms on a U.S. military convoy and a Shiite prayer hall, the al-Rai daily reported. Kuwait's Arifjan Base houses several thousand U.S. troops and serves as a military transit point to Iraq and Afghanistan. Home to a small Shiite minority, Kuwait was the site of a suicide attack linked to the Islamic State (IS) group back in June 2015. A Saudi jacket wallah killed 26 worshipers in a Shiite mosque, the worst such attack in the Gulf state's history. Dhafiri was deported earlier in April to Kuwait where he is now set to stand trial on charges of belonging to a banned ...the word bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all... organization and plotting attacks, al-Rai said. He had been arrested in Manila along with his wife, whom he married after her high-ranking IS commander husband was killed in Syria. Authorities in Kuwait have also arrested four of Dhafiri's relatives, including his brother and nephew, in connection with the planned attacks, al-Rai said. The five suspects told public prosecutors that suicide bombers had been recruited from outside of Kuwait to carry out the attacks, according to al-Rai. They also said there had been tentative plans to target a church in Kuwait during a visit this week by Coptic Pope Tawadros II. Kuwaiti courts have handed down multiple convictions on charges of IS membership or financing. |
| Posted by:Fred |