Kuwait officials confirm mosque suicide bomber was Saudi Arabian

Kuwait officials have identified the suicide bomber behind its worst militant attack as a young Saudi Arabian man. Officials confirmed they had detained the driver of the vehicle that took the suicide bomber to a Shi'ite Muslim mosque where he killed 27 people. Kuwait’s interior ministry named the bomber as Fahd Suliman Abdul-Muhsen al-Qabaa and said he flew into Kuwait’s airport at dawn on Friday, only hours before he detonated an explosives-laden vest at Kuwait City’s Imam al-Sadeq mosque.

This incident targets our internal front, our national unity. But this is too difficult for them and we are much stronger than that.

Kuwaiti prime minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah .

The Islamic State militant group issued an audio clip purporting to be a posthumous statement by the bomber, in which he criticizes Shi'ite Muslims, “especially in Kuwait”, for what he terms insulting Islam. Al-Qabaa was not previously known to security authorities. The timing of his arrival suggests he had a network already in place in Kuwait, officials say. The Kuwaiti interior ministry said it was searching for more partners and aides in this “despicable crime”, adding that Qabaa had been born in 1992.

Middle East Kuwait attack