Kuwait City, May 18 (AFP) Shiite and Sunni Islamist Kuwaiti MPs fought with fists in parliament today during a heated debate over Kuwaiti inmates in the US Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
The parliament was holding a debate over four Kuwaiti detainees in the US prison camp in Cuba when Shiite MP Hussein al-Kallaf provoked some Sunni fellow MPs by dismissing the prisoners as "Al-Qaeda" militants.
Chaos erupted when Jamaan al-Harish representing the Muslim Brotherhood replied to Kallaf saying that the session was not called to discuss Al-Qaeda but Guantanamo prisoners.
Two Shiite and four Sunni lawmakers were involved in the fight prompting MP Abdullah al-Rumi to adjourn the session.
The debate was attended by a delegation of US lawyers defending the inmates.
Kuwait on December 1 disowned comments attributed to its interior minister calling for the death of its nationals held at Guantanamo Bay.