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Arabia
Kuwait upholds jail sentences of Afghanistan, Iraq fighters
2007-01-17
KUWAIT CITY - KuwaitÂ’s supreme court Tuesday upheld the jail sentences imposed against five nationals in two separate cases for joining the anti-US insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the first case, the court upheld the five-year sentences handed down against Maqbool Fahd Al Maqbool, 27, Mohammed Al Mutairi, 27, and Adel Yussif Buhaimed, 37, for travelling to Afghanistan to fight under Al Qaeda command against US and other NATO troops.

The three men had also been convicted with a fourth man still at large of financing the October 2000 attack on the destroyer USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden in which 17 US sailors were killed.
And we should be sure to be waiting to collect these three mooks the day they get out of the Kuwaiti slammer.
In the second case, the court upheld the three-year jail sentences handed down against Abdullah Al Shimmari and Ali Al Subaie for travelling to Iraq with the aim of fighting US troops there. The court also confirmed an additional two-year sentence against Shimmari for using a forged passport to return to Kuwait.

The supreme courtÂ’s judgements are final.
Posted by:Steve White

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