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By Ahmed Hagagy KUWAIT (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a packed Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers, killing more than ten people, the governor of Kuwait City and a witness said. The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on social media and said it had targeted a "temple of the rejectionists" -- a term it generally uses to refer to Shi'ites, whom it regards as heretics. It was the first suicide bombing attack on a Shi'ite mosque in the small Gulf Arab oil exporting state, where Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims live side by side with little apparent friction.More...