Kuwait's government has criticised a senior US official for having accused a minister of the Gulf state of funding jihadist fighters in Syria, local media reported on Tuesday. "The cabinet followed with great attention and displeasure accusations by a US official ... against the justice and Awqaf (Islamic endowments) minister," Nayef al-Ajmi, it said in a statement. David Cohen, the US Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said Ajmi's appointment to the Kuwaiti cabinet was "a step in the wrong direction." "Ajmi has a history of promoting jihad in Syria," he said. Parts of the lecture were carried in the media in oil-rich Kuwait, a close ally of the United States.
04-02-2014, 11:32 AM
Kuwait defends minister after US charge of funding jihadists
Kuwait's government has criticised a senior US official for having accused a minister of the Gulf state of funding jihadist fighters in Syria, local media reported on Tuesday. "The cabinet followed with great attention and displeasure accusations by a US official ... against the justice and Awqaf (Islamic endowments) minister," Nayef al-Ajmi, it said in a statement. David Cohen, the US Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said Ajmi's appointment to the Kuwaiti cabinet was "a step in the wrong direction." "Ajmi has a history of promoting jihad in Syria," he said. Parts of the lecture were carried in the media in oil-rich Kuwait, a close ally of the United States.
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