Kuwait City, 22 Nov. (AKI) - Five extremist 'preachers' have been arrested for going door-to-door spreading the doctrine of the terror group al-Qaeda among the inhabitants of a Kuwaiti city. Local newspaper al-Seyassah said the five were detained on Monday morning as they went around the al-Farwaniya area, knocking on doors and stopping citizens to talk to them about the importance of the Jihad (holy war) and the need to re-establish Sharia Islamic law in the world. | Kind of like Jehovah's Witnesses with turbans and explosives |
The five preachers had effectively been holding impromptu religious lessons on the Jihad all morning, until the police were alerted and they were arrested. The group of fundamentalist preachers was made up of three Egyptians and two Indonesians. The security services are trying to discover how they entered the country and if they had direct contact with terror groups active in Iraq.
Also on Monday, the Iraqi navy intercepted a group of 80 people who tried to illegally enter Iraq from Kuwait via the sea. The group included people from different Arab countries, many of whom planned to join the al-Qaeda in Iraq terror group led by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a source from the navy said. "They are mostly Kuwaitis, Syrians, Jordanians and Iranians who intended to carry out a major attack in Basra," the city where they were planning to dock, the source said. |