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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.
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Posted by:Steve White |