The Appeals Court Sunday upheld a lower court verdict acquitting six Kuwaitis of plotting attacks on US troops, and reduced the fine against two of them — Ahmed Motlaq Al-Mutairi and Faris Jahaz Al-Otaibi - to KD 200 for illegal possession of arms. The court also ordered them to sign a pledge of good conduct for two years.
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However, the court also refrained from issuing a sentence against two other men involved in the same case — Abdullah Motlaq Al-Mutairi and Mesaed Shabeen Al-Enezi — but ordered the men to sign a pledge of good conduct for six months.
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The court also upheld the verdict of the lower court for two other men — Nawaf Mefarrij Al-Mutairi and Jaber Abdullah Al-Jalahma — and set them free.
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The Criminal Court had on July 13 acquitted all of them, but fined Ahmed and Faris KD 2,000 each. The men were arrested in January 2003, and charged with "preparing to carry out military attacks against the US troops ahead of the war on Iraq." They were also charged with harming political status during wartime. Ahmed was also accused of receiving training on arms and ammunition in Afghanistan as was evident from a charge mentioned in the charge sheet. However, his lawyer told the court he received this training before the American forces came to Kuwait. Faris was charged with possessing unlicensed arms and ammunition, however, no arms were found in his possession. |