According to Al Watan, an Arabic daily published from Kuwait, preliminary investigations have revealed that the five wanted to carry out acts of sabotage at some sensitive government installations and a television channel that has been critical of the Syrian government’s high-handedness in dealing with protests against the regime of President Bashar Al Assad, the daily reported.
The newspaper said quoting unnamed reliable sources that the five belong to Syria’s Baath Party.
Their objective was to destabilise and threaten the government which has been critical of Syrian authorities for their treatment of the protestors.
The five were planning to carry out attacks on media establishments that have been objectively reporting the political unrest in Syria and have been critical of the governments’ handling of the protests.
Notably, one of the countries in the GCC region is home to a television network that has been relentlessly exposing the brutal killings of the protestors by the military in Syria, the paper said.
The five detainees are being kept in a secret location and their fake passports have been given to the criminal investigation department for investigation.
The details of the passports have been given to the Turkish authorities concerned for investigation.
The authorities have said that the passports seem to be original but the detainees have allegedly tampered with the photographs to affix their own photos to hide their original identify. They further said that the five must have snatched these passports from Turkish citizens visiting Syria.
