In the past few days, the name Khaled AlDosari has been on everybody’s mind. The guy is obviously a threat, and a dangerous one, the government had many opportunities to grab him but never did!

There was an excellent article written yesterday in AlQabas by a person who knew both alshaheed Hamad AlAyoubi and the Isalmist Sami AlMutairi, one died serving his country, the other on death row after killing an American back in 2003 (check the article in my last post for details).

In this post, I will focus on Khaled AlDosari and Sami AlMutairi. How did they become the dangerous terrorists they are??

First, there is Khaled AlDosari, who is in charge of much chaos here in Kuwait. Apparently, he is the Zarqawi connection in Kuwait, and has an illustrious history which includes helping in recruiting teenagers and shipping them to Iraq to kill themselves fighting, starting illegal gatherings, linked to terrorist cells in Morocco, led the anti- star academy rally during the concert, was in the Salmiya apartment with the terrorists a day before they were caught, among many things. How did he get to that point? This caption was taken from an article today in AlQabas about him -

Ok, so he was an alcoholic and a drug addict before turning into this.

As for Sami AlMutairi, in 2003, he left his car, shot two Americans, and was caught. The guy is sentenced to death, deservedly so. What drives a man to take a gun, and shoot 2 people for sole reason of them being Americans?

A little background about Sami AlMutairi, in 2000, while in university, he was arrested by amn ildawla for distributing anti-religious pamphlets!! He was part of Alwasat AlDemoqraty (The Democratic Circle), which many of you know is the liberal group in Kuwait University, he even went on marches calling for womens’ rights and was against segregation of sexes in school. He decided, without permission from anyone in the Democratic Circle, to distribute that crap. His actions were obviously condemned by everyone including The Democratic Circle. He was arrested, and following his release, he defiantly held a press conference attacking the government. This is a recent picture of him -

Something mustve happened to these individuals that made them switch. Lets draw a line and call that line “middle point”, with conservative on the right, and liberal on the left. Both these people definitely were not part of the conservative side, so let us place them on the liberal side (the term liberal doesnt apply to AlDosari’s actions, but we’ll go with it for the sake of argument). If we place them on the liberal side, we will have to go waaaay left, far beyond any reason, they were on a side of liberalism which even liberals where against their actions!

When they switched, they didnt go from that to reasonably liberal, or “middle point”, or even reasonably conservative. They flipped from ridiculously far on the left side, to extrimists and ridiculously far on the right side, a point where even most religious people frown upon their actions.

My point is, these individuals are sick. I think they are acting out of passion, without using any sense or brain. They have alot of emotion and enthusiasm, all they needed was a cause where they could release that power within them.

Khaled AlDosary tried alcohol and drugs to make up for the kabt around him and maybe to forget about the stress inside him, then he found assurance and help from certain people, and with time, gained enough power and self confidence to release the beast within. Instead of drugging it to supress it, he got an opportunity to release it, albeit in a very negative and evil way.

Sami AlMutairi was also obviously full of passion and enthusiasm with his opinions and actions. After all the commotion, he ended up being a frustrated individual with alot of passion inside, with no support from the group he thought should support him, the liberals. They obviously condemned him, rightfully so, a young man in that position will easily get confused. So instead of taking a step back and evaluating his life, his passion took over, and he saw that the only group that is growing and actually doing something is AlQaeda. His passion fits perfectly with their needs. A few discussions with a recruiter would have surely inspired him and made him high with the promises and stories, and the result is what happened.

In the end, where can people with all that passion and enthusiasm pour it into in Kuwait? Our youth is in need. We’ve got too much closure, and not enough chances such as public organizations or decent outlets for our youth to express themselves. Youth are outcasts here, and this is only a result of many years of neglegance from the government to that group of people.

These were only two people out of hundreds of thousands of frustrated young people, and expect many more to come….