Jeddah, July 7: Three Saudi brothers have been arrested on a “strong suspicion” of having links with last month’s bombing of a Shia mosque in Kuwait, the Saudi interior ministry said on Tuesday. He said other suspects, including fighters with Islamic State overseas, have been identified and that some of their relatives inside Kuwait have been charged in connection with the blast. The ministry revealed the name of the suicide bomber as Fahd Suliman Abdul-Muhsen al-Qabaa.
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In late June, a Saudi man blew himself up inside the Kuwait City mosque, killing 27 worshippers and wounding more than 200.
Turki further said that one of the brothers was recently captured in Kuwait, and will be handed over to Saudi security officials within the next few days.
The ISIS-affiliated group calling itself Najd Province, which claimed the Kuwait bombing, also said it carried out two suicide attacks at Shiite mosques in eastern Saudi Arabia in May.
Majed was arrested in the western Saudi city of Taif while Mohammed was taken into custody after a shootout at a house near the Kuwaiti border in which two policemen were wounded.
“Two of them were born in Kuwait and they have ties to a fourth sibling who is present in Syria as part of Daesh”, the Saudi ministry said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.
The attack has raised concerns about the number of young Saudi men willing to travel to attack Shiites in smaller Gulf Arab states and so make good on a threat by ISIS to step up violence in the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
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