The security services at the Interior Ministry in Kuwait were able to thwart a plan of a terrorist cell which aimed to target places of worship belonging to the Shiite sect.
The Kuwaitian news agency reported that the Ministry of the Interior thwarted a plot involving a “terrorist cell” targeting Shiite places on Thursday 25, 2024.
According to the agency, the security forces managed to monitor the activities of the cell, leading to the arrest of three individuals of Arab nationality affiliated with a terrorist organization. The specific details of the operation have not been disclosed.
In a statement published on the “X” platform, the Ministry of the Interior announced: “The security forces, acting under the aegis of the national security apparatus, thwarted a plan of a terrorist cell aimed at places of worship of the Shiite community and human life. It was specified that the three arrested individuals, all of Arab nationality, were referred before the prosecution for appropriate legal proceedings.
The national identity of those arrested as well as the name of the terrorist organization to which they belong were not disclosed by the ministry.
However, the three people involved were immediately arrested, they are all of Tunisian nationality. “Three Tunisians belonging to Daesh were arrested, the prosecution ordered their pre-trial detention for 21 days,” reports local newspaper Al-Jarida.
The same source explains that the accused admitted having monitored places of worship in Kuwait for three weeks and having received orders from the Islamic State to carry out terrorist operations against the Shiites.
The accused will be brought to justice next week to face accusations of belonging to a prohibited organization and planning of terrorist operations.
Kuwait has been the scene of its most violent attack for decades in 2015, when a Saudi suicide bomber has exploded in a crowded Shiite mosque, causing the death of 27 people. The Islamic State had then claimed the responsibility of the attack.
