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| Sabotage artist gets sentence review | |
| 2003-05-21 | |
| Court of Cassation, presided by Judge Qazem Al-Mazeedi, Tuesday set June 17, 2003, to issue a sentence in the appeal filed by Mohamed Abdullah Al-Dousari, the main convict in the 'sabotage ring case', sentenced to seven years by the Appeals Court after it reduced a 10-year sentence by the Criminal Court. Al-Dousari was convicted of possessing explosives, arms and ammunition with the aim of carrying out illegal activities against the State of Kuwait. Case papers indicate Al-Dousari and 15 other men - Mohamed H. Al-Ajmi, Saud Al-Ajmi, Mishal Al-Shimmari, Talib Al-Felaij, Badi Cruz, Mohamed D. Al-Ajmi, Mohamed M. Al-Otaibi, Shafi Al-Ajmi, Fehaid Al-Ajmi, Tariq Abdullah, Mohamed Q. Al-Shimmari, Nabeel Al-Oun, Mohamed A. Al-Otaibi, Mohamed S. Al-Ajmi and Majed Al-Harbi, had planned to blow the Israeli Trade Office (I.T.O.) in Qatar in 2001. Dousari was charged with carrying out hostile actions against a neighbouring country, Qatar, by planning to blow the I.T.O., with the help of other suspects. On Dec 4, 2001, the Appeals Court amended the verdict of the Criminal Court for seven other men in the case who were acquitted by the Criminal Court. The Appeals Court refrained from passing a verdict but released them on a KD 5,000 bail and ordered them to sign a pledge of good conduct for two years. Some of the men were charged with stealing weapons and explosives from their workplaces at the ministries of Interior and Defence. Two of the defendants, who are police officers, are charged with aiding and facilitating the escape of one of the men to leave Kuwait before he was arrested. Members of the alleged sabotage ring were arrested and huge quantities of TNT and PE4 explosives, guns, Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were seized from them.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |