Kuwait interrogates mosques Imams on the question of al-Jihad in Iraq
Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 8/7/2004

The Kuwaiti security authorities addressed a memorandum to the attorney general demanding investigation with several mosques Imams under the accusation of " provoking for Jihad " and embracing a " disbelieving thinking."

Several months ago, the attorney general in Kuwait investigated Sheikh Hamid al-Alia, the former secretary general of the Kuwaiti al-Salafeyah movement -- one of the groups of the Salafe trend -- on accusations of provocation and training on violence. A matter which al-Ali strongly denied in the investigations.

This comes at a time, when the security forces in Kuwaiti intensified its campaign in search of new wanted persons during which it detained four persons involved with groups adopting the thinking of al-Qaida organization.

Kuwaiti press sources quoted security sources as saying that " total number of trained and organized persons of such Salafi thinking and of al-Qaida organization philosophy reached 24, noting that those are led by Imams of certain mosques who provoke for Jihad," the sources did not specify any of the names of those Imams.

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