The detention renewal judge Wednesday renewed for 15 days the detention of 13 suspects, including Amer Khlaif Al-Enezi's wife - who have been arrested in connection with the terrorist acts in Maidan Hawalli and Umm Al-Haiman. The woman was arrested for distributing pamphlets calling to support Osama bin Laden and release all persons arrested in connection with the twin shoot-outs. All those detained have denied the charges against them. Meanwhile, attorney Mubarak Al-Mutawa, defending Sheikh Hamid Al-Ali, former preacher of the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and former Secretary-General of the Salafi Movement, Wednesday told the Arab Times the detention of Sheikh Hamid should be finalized by the end of next Wednesday before completion of 21 days - the official detention period. Al-Mutawa also said lawyers for Sheikh Hamid are neither allowed to meet their client nor attend the interrogations. He added the Public Prosecution is holding the interrogations in secret in the belief they could be jeopardized if they are made public. "At the moment we are trying to prove there is no link between what Sheikh Hamid has said or posted on his Internet website and what the terrorists have done in Kuwait," said Al-Mutawa. He added the two cases should be treated separately because there is no link between Sheikh Hamid and terrorists.
Al-Mutawa said Sheikh Hamid does not know the suspects of the Maidan Hawalli and Umm Al-Haiman shoot-outs and has no relation with them. He added the suspects in the two incidents are youths who have misunderstood and misinterpreted what Sheikh Hamid had said. He added Sheikh Hamid is not responsible for what other people think or do. Hamid was summoned and interrogated by the Public Prosecution for allegedly collaborating with the suspects of the Maidan Hawalli and Umm Al-Haiman shoot-outs.