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Title: Kuwait busts global ISIL cell
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Rapid News Network
URL Source: http://rapidnewsnetwork.com/kuwait-busts-global-isil-cell/297191/
Published: Nov 20, 2015
Author: Jake Carter
Post Date: 2015-11-20 06:18:13 by Willie Green
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Kuwaiti authorities have arrested two Australians as part of an extremist network that supplied funds and weapons, including rockets, to Islamic State militants, state news agency KUNA quoted the Interior Ministry as saying on Thursday. The cell’s chief, who was not named, confessed that he raised funds and provided logistical support for the group, which has carried out deadly attacks in Lebanon and France in the past week, the ministry said. “[Khayat] was in continuous contact with ISIS leadership in Syria, and confessed to printing stamps and designing seals bearing the logo of ISIS, and transferring sums of money to accounts in Turkey and Syria”, the statement said. Kuwait’s Interior Ministry also alleges the suspected cell collaborated with four people outside Kuwait, identified as two Syrians and two Australian-Lebanese. Five others had been arrested, the report said. Police said they also arrested three Syrians, one of whom was an arms dealer for the IS group and another who was in charge of finances and communication. They were charged with raising about 400,000 Kuwaiti dinars ($1.3 million) and sending it to ISIL, which has seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq and carried out attacks throughout the Middle East. One of the Islamic State group’s affiliates in the Arabian Peninsula, calling itself Najd Province, claimed responsibility for that attack. The Gulf Arab country suffered its worst militant attack at the hands of Islamic State in June, when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the Imam al-Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City, killing 27 people. Seven men were sentenced to death and eight others were given jail term between two to 15 years. Kuwait says detains group supplying funds, weapons to IS
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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
Kuwait is reaping its own whirlwind. Many wealthy Kuwaitis helped fund ISIS in its formative stages with Kuwait's government looking the other way. ISIS would not exist if it was not for the Saudis, the Qataris and the Kuwaitis. And the collusion of Turkey in providing safe passage for terrorists to travel safely to and from Syria and Iraq, concealing the movements of these jihadi from other governments like their home countries and Turkey's (supposed) NATO allies.
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