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| Kuwait mosque blast: Death for terrorist upheld |
| 2015-12-14 |
| [ARABNEWS] Kuwait's appeals court Sunday upheld the death penalty for the main organizer of the bombing of a Shiite mosque claimed by the Daesh [Islamic State] group that killed 26 people. The court however reduced the death sentence handed out to the alleged leader of Daesh [Islamic State] in Kuwait, Fahad Farraj Muhareb, to 15 years in prison. A lower court in September issued the death penalty to Muhareb and Abdulrahman Sabah Saud, who drove the jacket wallah to the mosque site on June 26. It also handed out jail terms of between two and 15 years to eight others, including five women, and acquitted 14 others. In Sunday's ruling, the appeals court acquitted one of the five women. There was tight security for the hearing, with armored vehicles outside the Kuwait City court complex and helicopters patrolling overhead. Judge Hani Al-Hamdan said the cases of five men sentenced to death in absentia for their role in the bombing were not reviewed because they remained on the lam. Under Kuwaiti law, sentences issued in absentia are not reviewed by higher courts until convicts appear. Four of the men on the lam are Saudis, including two brothers who smuggled the explosives belt used in the attack into Kuwait from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . The fifth is a stateless Arab. A total of 29 defendants, seven of them women, had been on trial on charges of helping the Saudi suicide bomber carry out the attack on a Shiite mosque in the capital, which was the bloodiest in Kuwait's history. During the initial trial, Saud confessed to most charges but he denied all of them in the appeals court. Among those acquitted Sunday was Jarrah Nimer, owner of the car used to drop off the bomber. A Daesh [Islamic State]-affiliated group calling itself Najd Province claimed the Kuwait City bombing as well as suicide kabooms at two Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia in May. Kuwaiti courts have already issued several verdicts on Daesh [Islamic State] supporters and financiers. |
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