Kuwait charges 24 with plotting attacks

Date

9/2/2015 3:39:32 AM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula)

A Kuwaiti special forces vehicle outside the constitutional court 4 2015 (AFP)

KUWAIT: Kuwait on Tuesday charged 24 people suspected of links to Iran and Shiite militia group Hezbollah with plotting attacks against the Gulf state a statement by the public prosecutor said.

The men were charged with "spying for the Islamic republic of Iran and Hezbollah to carry out aggressive acts against the State of Kuwait" by smuggling in and assembling explosives as well as possessing firearms and ammunition the statement said.

They were also charged with "carrying out acts that would undermine the unity and territorial integrity" of Kuwait and of possessing eavesdropping devices it said.

Two other men were also charged in the same case one with possessing illegal weapons and another with failing to inform authorities about the arms.

One of the suspects is Iranian and the rest are Kuwaiti nationals. Three who remain at large were charged in absentia.

Prosecutors said the suspects were linked with a "terror cell" the interior ministry said it had busted last month while seizing large amounts of weapons ammunition and explosives.

Officials said at the time that three men had been arrested and confessed to joining an illegal group that local media reported was Hezbollah.

Media had reported that more arrests followed and the prosecutor said 22 of the suspects charged on Tuesday had received explosives and weapon training to "achieve illegal goals".

A number of suspects were accused of being members of Hezbollah which "aims to demolish the social and economic foundations of the country" the prosecutor's statement said.

AFP

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