Islamic State Members Embedded In Government
The Kuwaiti interior ministry has arrested a citizen working for a governmental organization who used his office and computer for hacking the official websites of certain countries and spreading the IS thoughts.
"This is not a rare case, rather the IS has many of its members inside the Arab countries' governmental bodies and institutions and all of them work for the ISIL in one way or another," Omar Badreddin, an Arab analyst, said recently.
Noting that the IS has formed a cyber army using the resources of the Arab and western world, he said that the terrorist group is leading a cyber war against the world’s nations.
Badreddin said that the Kuwaiti security forces have arrested a person, namely Othman Zain Nayef who used his office and computer to promote ISIL thoughts through the social media, adding that Nayef has admitted that he was a member of the 'Caliphate Cyber Army' and expert in hacking the websites used by other IS members.
Kuwait has waged a crackdown on militants since a suicide bomber killed 27 people in an attack on a Shiite Muslim mosque in Kuwait City in June 2015. The ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack.
Also around 150 Kuwaiti nationals and residents who hold no citizenship, known as Bidoon, were in Syria fighting within terrorist groups and up to 11 have died in the fighting.
