Kuwait: Five extremists were arrested

The Kuwaiti ministry of the interior said yesterday that the Kuwaiti authorities arrested five persons with "extremists thoughts" including four Kuwaitis having weapons.

In a statement, the ministry said that five persons ( including one non-Kuwaiti) were arrested, "known to holding extremist thinking and they had collected large amounts of weapons, artillery, mortars and shells of the remains of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait."

The statement which was issued by the Kuwaiti new agency added that the five persons are Fahd Faraj Nassar Muharib ( a non Kuwaiti born in 1966) and the Kuwaities are Khaled Madi Saad al-Azemi ( born in 1970), Bader Jum'a Ghloum Hassan ( 1972) and Adel Abdul Rahman al-Ali ( born in 1965) and Iadbis Mutlaq al-Azemi ( born in 1970).

The statement which gave no mention to the date when the five persons were arrested, explained that they had dumped weapons in "Amghara and Berr al-Sabeyah area." The statement indicated that "the five men admitted this matter and that they were trained on using the weapons in Berr al-Sabeyah and al-Jahraa."

The Kuwaiti authorities on February 24 arrested three Kuwaitis who were planning attacks against the American forces in Kuwait.