Kuwait Shia mosque bomber was Saudi national

[HAIDER]

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait on Sunday identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on a Shia mosque as a Saudi national, after a series of arrests in connection with the blast that left 26 dead.

Know more: Suicide bombing at Kuwait Shia mosque kills 13.

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.

Kuwait's interior ministry gave the real name of the attacker as Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba'a, in a statement carried by the official KUNA news agency.

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 on Sunday, the ministry said that security services arrested the driver of the car that transported the bomber to the Al-Imam Al-Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City.

He was named as Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud and described as an “illegal resident” born in 1989.

Authorities on Saturday arrested the car owner, Jarrah Nimr Mejbil Ghazi, born in 1988, and also listed as a stateless person.

Authorities 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”.

“Illegal resident” is the official term used in Kuwait to describe stateless people, locally known as bidoons, who number around 110,000 and claim the right to Kuwaiti 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.

Local media said 18 of those killed were Kuwaitis, three Iranians, two Indians, one each from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and one bidoon.

The breakthroughs in the bombing probe came a day after thousands of Kuwaitis braved scorching summer heat on Saturday to attend the funerals of 18 victims.

Mourners turned out in large numbers for the funerals despite the Ramazan daylight fast and as temperatures hit 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit).

“This crowd is the proof that the objectives of the criminal act have failed,” parliament speaker Marzouk al-Ghanem told reporters.

The mourners, who included women clad in black Islamic dress, carried Kuwaiti flags and black and green banners bearing religious slogans.

The health ministry said that 40 wounded are still being treated in hospital.

'They cannot divide us' -
In Iraq, relatives wept as the coffins of the eight remaining victims arrived and were taken inside the airport terminal at Najaf, an AFP journalist said.

They were buried at dawn on Sunday in Najaf's Wadi al-Salam cemetary, according to deputy provincial council head Luay al-Yasiri.

"We want to deliver a message to Daesh (an Arabic acronym for IS) that we are united brothers among the Sunnis and Shias, and they cannot divide us," said Abdulfatah al-Mutawwia, a Kuwaiti living in Iraq who lost his brother in the bombing.

Tens of thousands of people headed by the emir offered condolences late Saturday to relatives of victims at Kuwait's Grand Mosque, the largest place of worship for Sunni Muslims, in a show of solidarity.

The cabinet announced after an emergency meeting on Friday that all security agencies and police had been put on alert to confront what it called “black terror”.

Justice and Islamic Affairs Minister Yacoub al-Sane said additional security measures will be taken around mosques and places of worship.

The emir, government, parliamentary and political groups and clerics have all said Friday's attack aimed to stir up sectarian strife in the emirate.

The radical Sunni IS considers Shias, which comprise a third of Kuwait's 1.3 million native population, to be heretics.

In the first working day after the bombing, Kuwait Stock Exchange dropped just 0.75 per cent and was trading on 6,165.22 points after one hour of opening.
Kuwait Shia mosque bomber was Saudi national - World - DAWN.COM

 

[Indus Pakistan]

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait on Sunday identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on a Shia mosque as a Saudi national, after a series of arrests in connection with the blast that left 26 dead.

Know more: Suicide bombing at Kuwait Shia mosque kills 13.

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.

Kuwait's interior ministry gave the real name of the attacker as Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba'a, in a statement carried by the official KUNA news agency.

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 on Sunday, the ministry said that security services arrested the driver of the car that transported the bomber to the Al-Imam Al-Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City.

He was named as Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud and described as an “illegal resident” born in 1989.

Authorities on Saturday arrested the car owner, Jarrah Nimr Mejbil Ghazi, born in 1988, and also listed as a stateless person.

Authorities 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”.

“Illegal resident” is the official term used in Kuwait to describe stateless people, locally known as bidoons, who number around 110,000 and claim the right to Kuwaiti 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.

Local media said 18 of those killed were Kuwaitis, three Iranians, two Indians, one each from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and one bidoon.

The breakthroughs in the bombing probe came a day after thousands of Kuwaitis braved scorching summer heat on Saturday to attend the funerals of 18 victims.

Mourners turned out in large numbers for the funerals despite the Ramazan daylight fast and as temperatures hit 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit).

“This crowd is the proof that the objectives of the criminal act have failed,” parliament speaker Marzouk al-Ghanem told reporters.

The mourners, who included women clad in black Islamic dress, carried Kuwaiti flags and black and green banners bearing religious slogans.

The health ministry said that 40 wounded are still being treated in hospital.

'They cannot divide us' -
In Iraq, relatives wept as the coffins of the eight remaining victims arrived and were taken inside the airport terminal at Najaf, an AFP journalist said.

They were buried at dawn on Sunday in Najaf's Wadi al-Salam cemetary, according to deputy provincial council head Luay al-Yasiri.

"We want to deliver a message to Daesh (an Arabic acronym for IS) that we are united brothers among the Sunnis and Shias, and they cannot divide us," said Abdulfatah al-Mutawwia, a Kuwaiti living in Iraq who lost his brother in the bombing.

Tens of thousands of people headed by the emir offered condolences late Saturday to relatives of victims at Kuwait's Grand Mosque, the largest place of worship for Sunni Muslims, in a show of solidarity.

The cabinet announced after an emergency meeting on Friday that all security agencies and police had been put on alert to confront what it called “black terror”.

Justice and Islamic Affairs Minister Yacoub al-Sane said additional security measures will be taken around mosques and places of worship.

The emir, government, parliamentary and political groups and clerics have all said Friday's attack aimed to stir up sectarian strife in the emirate.

The radical Sunni IS considers Shias, which comprise a third of Kuwait's 1.3 million native population, to be heretics.

In the first working day after the bombing, Kuwait Stock Exchange dropped just 0.75 per cent and was trading on 6,165.22 points after one hour of opening.
Kuwait Shia mosque bomber was Saudi national - World - DAWN.COM

Who did you think it was going to be? A Gay, Athiest, Marxist from Norway?
Wonder what his excuse is - He was too rich? Pappa bought a Porchse for his 18th instead of Lamborghini ?

 

[Serpentine]

Surprise surprise!

 

[Azizam]

Who did you think it was going to be? A Gay, Athiest, Marxist from Norway?
Wonder what his excuse is - He was too rich? Pappa bought a Porchse for his 18th instead of Lamborghini ?

Here's my take. They live in a very repressed society where even the most basic human behaviour is crushed and the result is the creation of monsters who then vent out their frustration by engaging in terrorism. Yet some members on this forum suggest bringing the same repressed culture to combat terrorism. The result is even more terrorists, death,corruption and destruction.

If you talk to people who just came out from that region you will know what I am talking about. They seem like they are from another universe. There was an Afghan guy I met on some volunteering project who was just touching every female member (in a sexual way) in our team.

 

[Caprxl]

SELF DELETE

 

[SHAMK9]

If you didn't see that coming, you're an idiot

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Who did you think it was going to be? A Gay, Athiest, Marxist from Norway?
Wonder what his excuse is - He was too rich? Pappa bought a Porchse for his 18th instead of Lamborghini ?

lol that is funny

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Hate thread/thread of no value created by a serial troll. The terrorist in question was a dual citizen of Kuwait and KSA like a very large percentage of native Kuwaitis. Just like "Jihadi John" was an Iraqi with Kuwaiti citizenship. The attack was claimed by the so-called "Wilayat of Najd", so not strange either.

1 Saudi Arabian citizen who was praying in the mosque that was attacked was among the victims.

Who did you think it was going to be? A Gay, Athiest, Marxist from Norway?
Wonder what his excuse is - He was too rich? Pappa bought a Porchse for his 18th instead of Lamborghini ?

Pakistani terrorists outnumber Saudi Arabian with a ratio of at least 1:10 and I am generous here.

Terrorism in Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Same with numerous other Muslim countries.

Here's my take. They live in a very repressed society where even the most basic human behaviour is crushed and the result is the creation of monsters who then vent out their frustration by engaging in terrorism. Yet some members on this forum suggest bringing the same repressed culture to combat terrorism. The result is even more terrorists, death,corruption and destruction.

If you talk to people who just came out from that region you will know what I am talking about. They seem like they are from another universe. There was an Afghan guy I met on some volunteering project who was just touching every female member (in a sexual way) in our team.

I don't think that you have any clue about KSA, the GCC or Saudi Arabians whether at home or abroad. The comparison with Afghanistan is hilarious on so many levels.

Saudi Arabian terrroists don't even make up 0,0001% of the total population and terrorist attacks in KSA can be counted on 1 hand.

Regarding Saudi Arabian suicide bombers there have been no more than 150 in total throughout the ages. I think that the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka had more.

ISIS has members from all nationalities, ethnicities, social classes etc. and they are lured for various reasons. You have to conduct a study among them and why people of all colors, nationalities, ethnic groups, social backgrounds etc. decide to join them.

At least KSA is neighboring the conflict zones, is a fellow Arab country with ancestral, tribal, cultural, linguistic, religious etc. ties to those conflict zones and moreover has a lot of people of Iraqi, Syrian, Yemeni etc. origin who are drawn to conflicts in their ancestral lands.

Why has a secular Arab nation like Tunisia that is located 3000 km from Syria and Iraq (unlike KSA next door) more ISIS members than KSA? Why has Russia almost as many members as KSA next door?

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In any case we don't care about those few clowns and we condemn them. This young man who lost his soul killed a fellow countryman and mostly fellow Arabs in a brotherly neighboring Arab country. The real culprits are the leaders and those few who brainwash mainly young vulnerable people (easy victims) and turn them into monsters.

@azzo @Gasoline @Bubblegum Crisis @Frosty @Full Moon @burning_phoneix @JUBA etc.

 

[Azizam]

I don't think that you have any clue about KSA, the GCC or Saudi Arabians whether at home or abroad. The comparison with Afghanistan is hilarious on so many levels.

Saudi Arabian terrroists don't even make up 0,001% of the total population and terrorist attacks in KSA can be counted on 1 hand.

Regarding Saudi Arabian suicide bombers there have been no more than 150 in total throughout the ages. I think that the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka had more.

ISIS has members from all nationalities, ethnicities, social classes etc. and they are lured for various reasons. You have to conduct a study among them and why people of all colors, nationalities, ethnic groups, social backgrounds etc. decide to join them.

At least KSA is neighboring the conflict zones, is a fellow Arab country and has a lot of people of Iraqi, Syrian, Yemeni etc. origins who are drawn to conflicts in their ancestral lands.

Why has a secular Arab nation like Tunisia that is located 3000 km from Syria and Iraq (unlike KSA next door) more ISIS members than KSA? Why has Russia almost as many members as KSA next door?

I didn't compare anything with Afghanistan, just said what happens when ultra repressive culture is imposed on people. Suicide bombers from Tamil tigers were poor people living in their territory who were brainwashed and set out to blow themselves up but there wasn't any notable case of a middle class Tamil in the capital giving up his/her lifestyle and be a terrorist. What explanation do you have about these people who are apparently belonged to middle class turned into monsters? It doesn't matter what country they are from, they are subjected into a form of repressive culture whether at home or society and in come cases(in the west) it was the result of inconsistency between the culture of their society and Tunisia is not a secular country, just only their rich elites are secular. Doesn't matter how you look at it, it all boils down to that otherwise, there is no way that a person with a healthy childhood suddenly turning into a terrorist.

And there's no point about mentioning numbers. Tamil tigers would have been just 1% of society but they destroyed the country (especially the economy) for 30 years until they were dealt with an iron fist and put an end to their madness.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

I didn't compare anything with Afghanistan, just said what happens when ultra repressive culture is imposed on people. Suicide bombers from Tamil tigers were poor people living in their territory who were brainwashed and set out to blow themselves up but there wasn't any notable case of a middle class Tamil in the capital giving up his/her lifestyle and be a terrorist. What explanation do you have about these people who are apparently belonged to middle class turned into monsters? It doesn't matter what country they are from, they are subjected into a form of repressive culture whether at home or society and in come cases(in the west) it was the result of inconsistency between the culture of their society and Tunisia is not a secular country, just only their rich elites are secular. Doesn't matter how you look at it, it all boils down to that otherwise, there is no way that a person with a healthy childhood suddenly turning into a terrorist.

And there's no point about mentioning numbers. Tamil tigers would have been just 1% of society but they destroyed the country (especially the economy) for 30 years until they were dealt with an iron fist and put an end to their madness.

You started talking about some Afghan and Afghanistan which has nothing to do with KSA. Saudi Arabians are studying all over the world and 99,9% of them have no trouble with integrating abroad. Saudi Arabian communities in the UK, France and the US are some of the most educated Muslim groups in those countries and some of the richest too. Nor is anything repressed in KSA as most people agree with Islamic values and those who do not have ways to avoid doing that whether in KSA or next door in UAE, Bahrain etc. Or in the West.

Saudi Arabians for instance have the biggest number of students at US universities per capita in the world and in terms of sheer numbers are only behind 1.3 billion big China, 1.2 billion big India and 52 million big South Korea.

"But the numbers have grown steadily since 2005 and doubled from the 2010 to 2012 academic years, according to a recent survey. The number of Saudi students in the U.S. last year grew to 44,566 — a nearly 30% increase from 2011.

The country ranked behind only China, India and South Korea in the number of students studying in U.S. colleges and universities.

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Noura Islam, a sophomore at UC Irvine from Saudi Arabia, chose the school… (Spencer Bakalar, Los Angeles…)"

More Saudi Arabians studying in the U.S. - latimes

Most of the Saudi Arabian ISIS members that have joined ISIS originate from the Northern Provinces which neighbor Iraq and are a stone throw away from Syria. 90% of them are below the age 25. That region of the country is the poorest. So here is an answer. Besides you don't have to be poor, have no formal education etc. to be dragged into a terrorist group or crime in general.

Hence why the communist elite of the USSR (that murdered millions), Nazis and the communists in China were mostly educated people. So it's the ideology that draws them more than anything.

Tunisia is one of the few democratic Muslim/Arab states and is to a large degree a secular state. Yet their citizens provide the highest number of ISIS recruits despite being located far away from Iraq and Syria.

In any case this terrorist was a dual citizen and this thread is another attempt to demonize Saudi Arabians and make it appear like everyone in KSA is a walking bomb despite those people numbering less than 200 people throughout history and thus less than 0,00001% of the total population.

When KSA was hit by 2 terrorist attacks (ISIS behind it just like this attack in Kuwait) that targeted the Shia community in the Eastern Province (one of the very first attacks on Shias in the history of KSA) the whole country rallied together both officially and on the social media which even usually biased/negative Western media reported and that's all that matters. I let the obsessed users here have a field day it seems that the moderators are tolerating this behavior as long as certain other groups are not targeted….Anyway don't give a crap but felt the need to make a small comment.

 

[HAIDER]

Unfortunately Mutawas are so strong in grass root level and its very hard for KSA to eject from their trenches ...
Driver originally planned to carry out mosque attack

Driver Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior yesterday referred five suspects to the public prosecutor after they were interrogated as part of the ongoing investigations in the Imam Al-Sadiq mosque’s blast.

They are Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud (bedoon - the driver who carried suicide bomber Fahad Suleiman Al-Gabba to the mosque), Jarrah Nimr Mejbil Ghazi (bedoon - the car’s owner), as well as Fahad and Mohammad Shukhayyer (Kuwaitis - they provided shelter to Abdulrahman Sabah, and believe in extremist ideologies).

The prosecution will interrogate the suspects before they are sent to court at a later date. More suspects connected to the case are expected to be referred to the prosecution as well, according to sources.

Peninsula Lions
Local dailies had reported yesterday that the cell which committed last Friday’s terrorist attack may have been connected to the Peninsula Lions; an Al-Qaeda-linked group whose members were arrested in a deadly shootout with police back in 2005 after staging several attacks in Kuwait. “The group members who are locked in at the Central Prison shouted ‘Allahuakbar’ simultaneously with the attack, prompting authorities to launch immediate investigations to pursue suspects connected with the Peninsula Lions,” said security sources quoted by Al-Jarida daily yesterday.

Details
The sources also provided details of what happened during the day of the attack, indicating that investigations revealed that Abdulrahman Sabah, the driver, was originally supposed to carry out the attack. “After he backed down, he was ordered to bring the explosive belt from an unidentified person in Nuwaiseeb, attach the battery to it, then drive the suicide bomber who had arrived to Kuwait on the day of the attack,” the sources said. They added that the car’s owner Jarrah Nimr received a phone call from his brother Falah, a jihadist currently fighting in Syria, asking him to help Abdulrahman to carry out the attack as originally planned. The sources also revealed that Fahad Shukhayyer was sentenced to prison in the Peninsula Lions case in 2005. The terrorist attack had left 26 people dead and 227 injured, while authorities beefed up security in the aftermath.

Argument
Meanwhile, security officers at the Grand Mosque reportedly had an argument with a man identified as the brother of one of the blast’s victims. The argument started when police discovered that the man did not hold any identifications. Major General Abdul-Fattah Al-Ali, the Interior Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for Public Security, reportedly gave orders to escort the man out of the mosque, which prompted his family members to react and threaten to leave the mosque where condolences services were received. Major General Ibrahim Al-Tarrah intervened and put the situation under control.

Tents removed
In the meantime, Ministry of Awaqaf and Islamic Affairs’ Undersecretary Dr Adel Al-Falah announced that the tents pitched outside the Grand Mosque would be removed during the last ten days of Ramadan when the late night prayers are held. Falah also denied intentions to cancel those prayers. Falah said that some of the famous Quran readers who are usually invited to lead the prayers at the Grand Mosque would instead lead those prayers at other mosques to help reduce the numbers of worshippers going there every year.

By A Saleh and Meshaal Al-Enezi

 

[HAIDER]

Five suspects in Kuwait attack face legal action – Bomber’s ‘last audio message’ warns of more attacks
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s interior ministry yesterday referred five suspects linked to the suicide bombing of a mosque to the prosecution service for legal action, a security official said. “We have referred five suspects accused of assisting the suicide bomber to the public prosecution,” the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

They include the driver who took the Saudi bomber to the mosque and the car’s owner and his brother, all stateless people or bedoons. They also include two Kuwaiti citizens-the owner of the house used as a hideout for the driver, and his brother, the official said. “More suspects are expected to be referred later,” he added.

Security agencies have rounded up an unspecified number of suspects in connection with Friday’s blast that killed 26 people and wounded 227. The public prosecution will now interrogate the suspects and then refer them for trial. Kuwait’s security agencies have “revised security plans and measures following the attack”, said the official, adding that the new measures involve boosting security in general and around mosques in particular.

The Islamic State group’s Saudi affiliate, the so-called Najd Province, claimed the bombing and identified the assailant as Abu Suleiman Al-Muwahhid. Kuwaiti authorities on Sunday said the real name of the bomber was Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen Al- Gabbaa, who was born in 1992. He entered the country through Kuwait Airport at dawn on Friday, the day of the bombing. A handout photograph of Gabbaa showed a young bearded man wearing a traditional Saudi headdress.

The bomber flew into the country after transiting through nearby Bahrain and had no background suggesting he planned to carry out a terrorist attack, according to Gulf officials. The details released by Saudi and Bahraini authorities paint a fuller picture of the suicide bomber in Friday's attack. The blast - which struck within hours of deadly attacks in Tunisia and France - has rattled largely stable Kuwait.

Bahrain's Interior Ministry said yesterday Gabbaa arrived in that island nation on a Gulf Air flight from the Saudi capital, Riyadh, at 10:40 pm on Thursday. He remained in transit for two and a half hours before boarding a connecting flight to Kuwait. Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said the bomber had no record with security forces or any background indicating terrorist activities. It confirmed he left the kingdom on Thursday bound for Bahrain.

Meanwhile, an audio message accompanied by two still photos that was posted online and promoted by Twitter accounts affiliated with the Islamic State group purports to be a final message from Gabbaa. A caption below the clip calls the bomber a "soldier of the caliphate" and identifies him by the nom de guerre of Abu Suleiman Al-Muwahhed.

In the message, the speaker vows to pursue jihad against his enemies, particularly Shiites in Kuwait, saying "we are on the lookout for you." He also addresses Islamic State group's leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, telling him to "be patient and swear to God that we are with you." The group's Najd Province offshoot, which said it was behind the Kuwait mosque attack, has claimed two attacks on Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia in late May. The branch's name refers to the central region of Saudi Arabia. - Agencies

 

[IR-TR]

May god kill all wahabbists and salafists. Mohammed pisses on their faces.