Kuwait Shiite mosque bomber was Saudi
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KUWAIT yesterday identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on a Shiite mosque as a Saudi national, after a series of arrests in connection with the blast that left 26 dead.
Friday’s attack also wounded 227 worshippers in the first bombing of a mosque in the tiny Gulf state and Kuwait’s security services have vowed to catch and punish those responsible.
The Islamic State group’s Saudi affiliate, the so-called Najd Province, claimed the bombing and identified the assailant as Abu Suleiman al-Muwahhid.
In a statement, Kuwait’s interior ministry gave the real name of the attacker as Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba’a, born in 1992.
It said that he entered the country through Kuwait Airport at dawn on Friday, the same day of the bombing.
A handout photograph of Qaba’a showed a young bearded man wearing a traditional Saudi headdress. Earlier yesterday, the ministry said that security services arrested the driver of the car that drove the bomber to the Al-Imam Al-Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City.
He was named as Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud, 26, and described as an “illegal resident,” the term Kuwait uses for stateless people locally known as bidoons.
Authorities on Saturday arrested the car owner, Jarrah Nimr Mejbil Ghazi, born in 1988, and also listed as a stateless person.
Security services have also detained the owner of a house used as a hideout by the driver, describing the owner as a Kuwaiti national who subscribes to “extremist and deviant ideology”.
Around 110,000 bidoons live in Kuwait and claim the right to citizenship.
Alleged IS executioner Mohammed Emwazi, who became known by media as “Jihadi John,” was born in Kuwait to a stateless family of Iraqi origin which later moved to London.
Kuwait’s Oil Minister Ali al-Omair said the government will discuss new security legislation today.
“The cabinet will discuss this issue Monday,” said Omair when asked about a government plan to introduce anti-terror legislation. He provided no details.
Several MPs have said they will pass any such legislation needed to crack down on extremists.
“If they need more legislation, we are prepared in order to strike at the elements of evil and terrorism,” Shiite MP Abdulhameed Dashti said in a statement.
Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah instructed authorities yesterday to repair the mosque damaged by the blast.
Local media said 18 of those killed were Kuwaitis, three Iranians, two Indians, one each from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and one bidoon.
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