It said the arrests mean such groups still exist and are active in the region.

The paper also called on the authorities not to feel complacent and keep on looking for such elements who might be plotting serious terror acts somewhere in the region.

'The security services in all Gulf states have been very active in finding and arresting such terrorists, but the successes of the past few years cannot lead to complacency, as the action in Kuwait proves,' it said.

A decade ago, the paper remarked, there might have been some residual sympathy from some small sections of society.

'Today, however, it is only a few hundred people from an extreme fringe who see any value in such deluded activity,' it said.