Gulf states on Sunday strongly condemned the "criminal" bombing near a British school in Qatar which killed one Briton and wounded 12 other people and called for unity to eradicate "terrorism" The six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) expressed in a statement its "rejection... of all criminal and terrorist acts which are against religions and human values". In a statement from its Riyadh headquarters, the GCC - made up of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain - said it was confident that the authors of the bombing attack would meet their "just punishment".
In Kuwait, a statement issued after the cabinet's weekly session "strongly condemns this heinous criminal act which targeted innocent life... and reiterates Kuwait's position of rejecting all forms of terror."
The statement also expressed complete solidarity with Doha.
Earlier Sunday, Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah called Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani to express Kuwait's sympathy and support for all measures taken by Qatar to confront terrorism.
The attack late Saturday was the first time Qatar, home to the US Central Command and the operational base for the US-led war on Iraq in 2003, has been the site of such an attack against a Western target.
Kuwait, a strong US ally in the Gulf, has been rocked by gunbattles involving Islamist militants believed to be linked to counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Iraq - both of which have been tageted by a wave of terror attacks.
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