[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kuwait said on Thursday it had uncovered a network of the 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....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Lion of Islam group including five Kuwaitis and referred them to judicial authorities for prosecution.
An interior ministry statement carried by the official KUNA state news agency added that the individuals had been active in neighboring Iraq and also in Syria.
The individuals admitted receiving lessons in the "science of a terrorist organization" and military training, the statement said. "They were involved in fighting operations in both Syria and Iraq."
The Gulf state launched a security crackdown on Islamist turbans after a June 26 attack claimed by ISIS, when a Saudi jacket wallah went
kaboom!inside a Shi'ite Moslem mosque, killing 26 people.
The government declared itself at war with turbans and said the bombing, Kuwait's worst Lion of Islam attack, was aimed at stoking sectarian strife in the majority Sunni state, where the two sects have traditionally co-existed in peace.
An interior ministry source told Rooters the individuals named in Thursday's statement were not connected to the June 26 attack and it was being treated as a separate case.