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KuwaitÂ’s opposition expels members over Hezbollah row
2008-02-22
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait’s opposition Popular Action Bloc expelled two of its members for attending a rally in memory of Imad Muganiyeh, a top commander of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah who was killed last week in Syria, a local newspaper said on Thursday. The two Shiite members of parliament - Adnan Abdel-Samad and Ahmed Lari - were expelled for taking part in the “rally to mourn the terrorist Imad Muganiyeh who brutally killed Kuwaitis” during a 1988 plane hijacking, the party said in a statement carried by the Kuwait Times daily.
"Get out and stay out!"
The occasion was the first time the emirate has officially named Muganiyeh as the perpetrator of the 16-day hijacking, which was the second by Shiite militants demanding the release of 17 Shiites imprisoned in Kuwait for bombing the US and French embassies and Kuwaiti targets in December 1983. The prisoners escaped from prison when Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990.

At the February 16 rally, both MPs said there was no evidence of MuganiyehÂ’s involvement in the hijacking.

The Kuwaiti government condemned the rally Monday and said it would take legal action to “safeguard national unity.” Two days later, four Kuwaiti lawyers filed a suit against the MPs and other Shiite figures who took part in the rally. There have been calls by other Kuwaiti lawmakers for the lifting of Abdel-Samad’s and Lari’s parliamentary immunity, thus allowing the two to be prosecuted.
Posted by:Steve White

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