[Dhaka Tribune] Kuwait's interior ministry said yesterday it had detained amongst others the owner of a vehicle which a jacket wallah used to get to a Shi'ite Moslem mosque where he went kaboom!, killing 27 and wounding 200 people mid-prayer.
Militant group 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....
grabbed credit for the country's worst hard boy attack on Friday, one of three attacks on three continents that day apparently linked to hardline Islamists.
In Tunisia, a gunman killed 37 people including Western tourists on a beach, and in La Belle France a decapitated body was found after an attacker rammed his car into a gas container, triggering an kaboom.
The interior ministry said it was now looking for the driver who vanished shortly after Friday's blast in Kuwait, which has been spared the rampant violence in neighbouring Iraq and recent spate of Islamic State bombings of Shi'ite mosques in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, another neighbour.
A security source told Rooters "numerous arrests" had been made in connection with Friday's bombing, which government officials said was intended to stir enmity between Kuwait's Sunni majority and Shi'ite minority.
Two Iranian nationals were among those killed, foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham was quoted as saying by Iranian state media yesterday.
Relatives of seven of those killed wept and prayed over their shrouded corpses at a mosque yesterday, who will be buried in the Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala in Iraq.
A mass funeral for most of those killed will be held at Kuwait City's Grand Mosque later yesterday, KUNA reported. A day of national mourning has been declared.
Oil security stepped up
Shi'ites are between 15 and 30 percent of the population of Kuwait, a mostly Sunni country where members of both communities live side by side with little apparent friction.
"We will cut the evil hand that interferes with our homeland's security," Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammed al Khaled al Sabah was quoted as saying by KUNA.