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| Kuwait Gives Egyptian Jihadist Life for Attack on U.S. Troops | |
| 2017-06-12 | |
...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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group to life in prison for an attack on U.S. troops in the emirate last year. Egyptian Ibrahim Suleiman in October rammed his truck into a vehicle carrying three U.S. soldiers, in what the U.S. embassy described as a "terrorist attack." The soldiers were unharmed but the driver was lightly maimed when his truck caught fire as a result of the collision. Kuwaiti authorities said at the time that police found a handwritten note on Suleiman in which he pledged allegiance to IS. They also said that he was carrying suspected explosives. Sunday's verdict against the 28-year-old is not final and will be reviewed by Kuwait's appeals and supreme courts. The supreme court on Sunday also upheld a 20-year jail term against Fahad Farraj, reportedly the de facto head of IS in Kuwait and the ringleader of an eight-member convicted IS cell. The court also upheld 15- and 10-year jail terms for the other seven members of the cell, five of whom are Kuwaiti citizens. The remaining three do not hold any citizenship. The eight were convicted of fighting with IS in Syria and Iraq and of raising funds for the group. Kuwaiti courts have given hefty jail terms to dozens of men charged with joining or sympathizing with IS. | |
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