From Turkish Weekly, Latest News:
Terrorism Accelerates in Kuwait
More police raids on militant hideouts in Kuwait and the strength of the militants' armed response demonstrate the extremists' continuing vigor. They also illustrate how the broader jihadist wave — irrespective of an al-Qaeda connection — is spreading in the Gulf.
On January 30 Kuwaiti security forces stormed a building in the Salmiyya residential district of the capital. In the ensuing gunfight Nasser Slaif al-Enezi, a fundamentalist high on Kuwait's most-wanted list, was killed and two others arrested. The next day a police raid on a suspected safe-house for militants in the Mubarak al-Kabir neighborhood set off another, more dramatic, gunfight — the fourth such confrontation in a month and the biggest yet. This left a tally of five radicals killed and the arrest of the alleged spiritual leader Amer Khulayf al-Enezi.
From the total of arrests and fatalities to date, the cell operating in Kuwait numbered about 30 and, according to official sources, was made up of various nationalities — Kuwait, Saudi, Jordanian, Yemeni and Bidoon (stateless Arabs resident on Kuwaiti territory). The group appears to be using several names. While an incident on January 15 was claimed by a group calling itself the ‘Mujahideen of Kuwait', a January 27 report in the Saudi daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat, referred to their leader, Amer Khulayf al-Enezi, as heading a group named ‘The Brigades of the Two Shrines (i.e. Makka and Madina) in Kuwait' (www.aawsat.com).
Detainees from the most recent incidents employed the terms ‘Sharia Falcons Squadrons' and ‘Peninsula Lion Brigades'. The last name tallies with a posting on February 1 on an Islamist forum, which featured a statement addressed to the Kuwaiti government of a ‘Great War' coming if the U.S. forces did not leave the country. It warned of "an event in which many innocent victims will fall, and you will be responsible for these victims for your opposition to our demands … if you refuse, then you have chosen the perilous course and it will be the end to your tyranny."
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