Kuwait Names Mosque Bomber, Makes Arrests

The government of Kuwait has identified the suspect in the country's worst terrorist attack as a citizen of Saudi Arabia.

The Guardian reports that the suicide bomber as Fahad Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Gabbaa, who was reportedly born in 1992. Al-Gabbaa's attack on a Shiite mosque shows how the Islamic State's influence and carnage continue to expand.

Al-Gabbaa flew into Kuwait from Saudi Arabia early in the morning on the day of attack. He was then driven to the mosque by an accomplice named Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud, a 25-year-old who has been arrested by the police. Saud is described as being Bidoon, an underclass of Kuwaiti society who are denied rights and jobs by the Arabic majority. The Bidoon, despite living their whole lives in the country, are not even considered as citizens of the country and as such do not possess passports or other basic rights.  

A third man, who is believed to have picked up and housed Al-Gabbaa between his arrival and the time of the attack, has also been arrested.

The mosque bombing, which claimed 27 lives and wounded 227 others, was part of a series of attacks around the globe. Around 40 people were killed when a gunman in Tunisia attacked a tourist resort, while a lone wolf in France beheaded his boss before crashing his car into an American-owned chemical factory in a failed effort to create a toxic explosion.

The attacks come just a week after ISIS called for its followers to carry out attacks throughout the month of Ramadan, one of the most holy times on the Muslim calendar.

The Kuwait mosque attack comes after two consecutive weeks of Shia mosque bombings in Saudi Arabia that ISIS claimed responsibility for.