A suspected member of the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) has confessed to plotting attacks on targets in Kuwait, AFP reported Wednesday (April 26th).
Judicial sources said Hussein al-Dhafiri, arrested with his wife in the Philippines last month, confessed to planning two suicide attacks, including one on a Shia prayer hall, Al-Rai daily reported.
Kuwait was the site of a suicide attack linked to ISIL in June 2015, when a Saudi suicide bomber killed 26 worshipers in a Shia mosque.
Al-Dhafiri was deported earlier in April to Kuwait, where he is now set to stand trial on charges of belonging to a banned organisation and plotting attacks.
He had been arrested in Manila along with his wife, whom he married after her high-ranking ISIL commander husband was killed in Syria.
Authorities in Kuwait also have arrested four of al-Dhafiri's relatives, including his brother and nephew, in connection with the planned attacks, Al-Rai said.
The five suspects told public prosecutors that suicide bombers had been recruited from outside of Kuwait to carry out the attacks, according to the daily.
They also said there had been tentative plans to target a church in Kuwait during a visit this week by Coptic Pope Tawadros II.
