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Kuwait Sentences Seven to Death over Imam Sadeq (AS) Mosque Suicide Attack
2015-09-16
[ALMANAR.LB] Seven defendants were sentenced to death on Tuesday for the terrorist suicide kaboom of a mosque in June in Kuwait that killed 27 people and maimed 227 others, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported.

Eight other suspects were given prison sentences ranging from two to 15 years by a Kuwaiti criminal court, KUNA said. Fourteen other defendants were acquitted.

The so-called 'Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
group grabbed credit for the June 26 bombing, when a Saudi jacket wallah blew up himself inside the Imam al-Sadeq (AS) mosque in Kuwait City. Hundreds of worshippers were performing Friday noon prayers when the bomb went off.

Kuwait cracked down on terrorist bandidos bandidos bad boys after the bombing, the country's worst bully boy attack. Officials say the bombing was aimed at stoking strife between Sunnis and Shiites in the state, where the two sects have usually coexisted in peace.

The 29 people indicted on terrorism charges in relation to the attack included Kuwaitis, Saudis, Paks and stateless residents. The charges ranged from premeditated murder to possession of explosives.

One of indicted was the taxi driver who drove the suicide bomber to the scene and a terrorist operative who confessed to his ISIL identity.

Five others were convicted in absentia, two of them were Saudi brothers who transferred the explosives belt to Kuwait.
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