Syria releases Kuwaiti Islamist
Syria-Kuwait, Local, 7/10/2002

The Kuwaiti minister of state for foreign affairs Khaled al-Jarullah said on Tuesday said that a Kuwaiti Islamists recently held in Syria was released.

Al-Jarullah added that the Kuwaiti citizen was released on "Monday afternoon" and that his name is Jaber al-Jalahema.

Replying to a question on the reason behind detaining al-Jalahema, the Kuwaiti minister said "I believe this happened as a result of misunderstanding."

Just five years ago al-Jalahema was an activist in what is called in Kuwait "al-Mujahedin group." They are Islamists who do not perform any political activity but continuously volunteer to go to places like Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechenya.

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