A wanted Kuwaiti on Sunday blamed the government for a wave of violence in the pro-Western, oil-rich country, saying police wanted to stop militant Islamists from joining the anti-U.S. insurgency in Iraq.
| "We're just on a holy mission, and dese guyz are trying to stop us!" |
"If these young men were thinking of operating inside Kuwait, they would have done so a long time ago," Khaled al-Dosari told the London-based Islamic Media Centre in an interview, a copy of which was sent to Reuters. "The authorities wanted to arrest these young men after discovering they intended to go to Iraq for jihad (holy war). Now the authorities are liquidating them physically because there is no evidence against them to put them on trial."
| The Kuwaiti coppers have been vigilant, haven't they? My how the pigs begin to squeal. |
Kuwaiti officials have said al Qaeda-linked militants were involved in a series of shootouts with police in the Gulf Arab state since early January. Dosari is one of two main suspects still at large. Police say arrested militants confessed to planning suicide attacks against U.S. military and Western targets in Kuwait and say they have seized large weapons caches.
Dosari said Islamic militants had no intention of launching a campaign against Kuwait, but promised revenge for the death of Amer al-Enezi, a man described by police as the spiritual leader of Kuwait militants, who died in custody last week. "The blood of Amer and his brothers is not worthless and we will enter into a blood feud ... Amer and his companions wanted to go to Iraq but authorities killed them on America's orders."
| "We will have Dire Revenge™!" |
Dosari denied the group had links to al Qaeda other than "a relationship of religion and blood" and disowned a media designation of the group as the "Peninsula Lions", under whose name statements appeared on Islamist Web sites.
| Except that "a relationship of religion and blood" is everything, isn't it. |
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