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| Anti-US Kuwaiti plot dismissed |
| 2005-03-30 |
| Prosecutors have dropped charges against two Kuwaiti soldiers accused of plotting attacks against US forces. According to their lawyer, Muhammad al-Mutairi, on Tuesday, no evidence of any crime has been found and the court has dismissed the charges against the men. "The case has been closed because there was no crime," he said. "The accusations were without evidence. The case is over." Kuwait's military did not specify the number of soldiers involved in the plot when the arrests were made public in January. Other soldiers were detained were later released, and the details of the alleged plot were never publicised. In an unrelated development, Kuwait's parliamentary human rights panel on Tuesday called for improving the detention conditions of suspected Islamist militants held in an American-style prison dubbed a "Kuwaiti Guantanamo." "We want conditions improved in the new prison which is branded as the Kuwaiti Guantanamo," head of the panel MP Walid al-Tabtabai said, referring to the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where hundreds of suspects are held. The prison is built like American-style jails with heavily-fortified solitary cells, and detainees are not allowed to go out or read books and newspapers, the Islamist lawmaker said. Parliamentary sources said that 23 inmates, all of them suspected Islamist fighters arrested following bloody clashes with security forces in January, are held in the new prison. The panel also demanded that relatives and lawyers of the inmates should be allowed to visit them, Tabtabai said after a meeting with senior interior ministry officials to discuss claims of torture and mistreatment of detainees. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 He prolly wants one of those prisons with a well-oiled revolving door. They're all the rage in Islamic countries pretending to participate in the WoT. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-03-30 8:07:46 AM |