Masri added that the captives "admitted carrying out killing operations in Syria and some of them acknowledged that they committed a grave mistake by believing that they were fulfilling a jihadist [duty] against an international conspiracy" aimed at strife-stricken Syria.
But the government disputes this account and says that it is facing a foreign conspiracy aimed at creating strife in the country, and that it is fighting armed Muslim extremists.
Kuwait's leadership now has reason to fear similarly orchestrated and inspired acts of terrorism aimed at fomenting strife in the emirate.
The attack on Tuesday night followed the Christmas Day bombings of churches and other targets by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram that killed 32 people and seemed aimed at igniting sectarian strife.
In fact, doing so would be the most effective way to bring down haphazard belligerency or belligerency that is aimed at inciting civil strife.
Although Hutu insurgencies continued to occupy Rwanda's government, a new constitution aimed at preventing further ethnic strife in the country was promulgated in 2003.
Home Minister L. K. Advani said India is willing to engage Hurriyat in talks aimed at ending a decade of strife.
The interior minister, Marwan Charbel said the attack was "a criminal act aimed at destabilising the country and creating Sunni-Shi'ite sectarian strife".
Such "calculated barbarism" was aimed at provoking civil war, but it was the bitter internal strife of another country – Syria – that provided the ideal environment for Isis to emerge under Zarqawi's successor, the scholarly son of an Iraqi imam: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Set in a down-and-out boarding house that is also a bordello, Brendan Behan's 1958 play, a fond satire aimed at an Irish society scrambled by decades of confusing political strife, has the shape and spirit of an exuberant binge.
There were signs on Saturday that the civil strife could intensify, as the government proposed measures aimed at further limiting the influence of the main Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, or possibly trying to eradicate it.
