Kuwait City: Security agencies in Kuwait have busted a spy cell working for Iran's Revolutionary Guards and collecting information on vital Kuwaiti military sites and the US presence in the northern Arabian Gulf country, a local daily reported on Saturday.
Citing unnamed high-ranking security sources, Al Qabas said that the cell included Kuwaiti, Arab and stateless Arabs (Bidoon) men and that some of them worked in the interior and defence ministries. The paper said that at least seven men have been arrested and that the security agencies were looking for six or seven men suspected of being members of the spying ring.
According to the report published by Al Qabas on its front page, security forces raided the home of one of the cell leaders in Sulaibiya two days ago and found maps for vital sites, highly sensitive and sophisticated communications devices and more than $250,000 in cash.
The military members of the cell have been dedicated to monitoring and taking pictures of the Kuwaiti and US military installations. The men were also assigned to gather information about the joint exercises between Kuwait and forces alliance forces.
The sources said that the members of the cell had confessed that their tasks also included recruiting members whose ideas and orientations were similar to those of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
The cell members said that some of them had dispatched reports about the political situation in Kuwait and the domestic front.
The members have regularly visited Iran allegedly for medical treatment, tourism or visiting religious sites, Al Qabas said.
