Kuwait executes 5, including perpetrator of 2015 mosque bombing claimed by Islamic State
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Kuwait announced on Thursday that it carried out the execution of five prisoners at the Central Prison, including one who was convicted for his role in the 2015 bombing of a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City.
Idan, known as Saud, was a so-called Bidoon, a group largely made up of descendants of desert nomads considered stateless by the Kuwaiti government. During his trial, prosecutors described him as driving the Saudi suicide bomber to the Imam al-Sadiq Mosque in Kuwait City.
The 2015 bombing occurred during midday Friday prayers inside the mosque, one of Kuwait’s oldest for Shiites. The Islamic State group, which at the time controlled large areas in both Syria and Iraq, claimed the attack, which also wounded over 220 people. The Sunni extremist group views Shiites as apostates deserving of death.