The Kuwaiti government has been trying to maintain a balance over the conflict, strongly condemning the attacks in New York and Washington that killed more than 4,000 and backing US claims Afghanistan-based Osama bin Laden was the main suspect.
It introduced measures to control operations by domestic Muslim charities in view of allegations some funds were being channelled to extremist groups and did not place restrictions on the use of its military facilities in the military campaign.
Liberals accuse it of failing to show sufficient support for the country that liberated them 10 years ago from a seven-month Iraqi occupation, but it is also anxious not to alienate influential Kuwaiti Islamist and tribal politicians.
An leading Kuwaiti Islamist group on Saturday accused Washington of acting like an outlaw and torturing Muslims in the United States.
"As long as it says it is not seeking to avenge September's events, the United States must abide by the principles of law, justice and truth," said Al-Mujtama'a weekly, mouthpiece of Kuwait's influential Muslim Brotherhood.
"Or else it becomes equal to those who are outlaws, an inappropriate image for the world's superpower of today," said the magazine, issued by the Social Reform Society which has several leading MPs in Kuwait's elected parliament.
The magazine's cover for the Nov 17-23 week shows an American B-52 dropping scores of bombs along with pictures of wounded and hungry Afghan children.
The weekly said "even the torture" of Arabs and Muslims in the United States has become widespread "despite proof security authorities there swiftly made accusations without evidence...".
I took this from the Kuwait Times newspaper.
