KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s Misdemeanor Court has adjourned deliberations on a lawsuit filed by the State Security Department against a Filipino housemaid suspected to be a member of Daesh (arabic acronym fo Islamic State) until Oct 24, 2016.
In the first week of August this year, Kuwait had arrested the Filipina it accused of joining the Daesh group through its affiliate in Libya and who planned to launch an attack.
The defendant denied the accusation although investigations revealed that she was ready to carry out a terrorism plot on behalf of the group in Kuwait, reported Arab Times.
She is said to be married to a Libyan member of the group. The country’s Interior Ministry had earlier said that the woman, born in 1984, entered Kuwait last June as a house maid.
Security forces monitoring the woman’s e-mail found messages by the woman to the Daesh group’s Libyan affiliate, pledging allegiance to the group.
“She confessed she was ready to carry out any terrorist attack once circumstances and means were ripe in order to undermine security and stability in Kuwait, as well as ignite sedition,” the state-run Kuwait News Agency had reported.
KUNA also published a photograph of the woman in a black abaya. The statement did not identify the woman, nor did it say if she faced criminal charges. It wasn’t immediately clear if she had legal counsel.
Kuwait has been hit by a Daesh attack before. A suicide bomber killed at least 27 people and wounded 227 during the holy month of Ramadan last year.
