Kuwait City: Kuwaiti police have arrested a government employee accused of spreading the Daesh terror group’s ideology online, the interior ministry said.
Othman Zain Nayef, a 26-year-old Kuwaiti national, had “used his office and computer to spread the extremist ideology of the so-called Daesh terrorist organisation”, the ministry said in a statement late on Thursday.
The ministry, quoted by state news agency Kuna, said the man had allegedly confessed to being a member of the group’s “electronic army” and to having hacked official websites “in friendly and sister states”.
Kuwaiti authorities announced last month that they had dismantled three Daesh cells plotting attacks, including a bid to carry out a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque and a plot aimed at an interior ministry target.
A Daesh-linked suicide bomber killed 26 worshippers last year when he blew himself up in a Shiite mosque, in the worst terror attack in the Gulf state’s history.
