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| Terrorist handed death for murder of security officers |
| 2015-05-21 |
| [ArabNews] A special criminal court in Riyadh on Tuesday sentenced a terrorist to death after an appeals court found that the trial court's sentencing of the culprit was not commensurate with the gravity of his crime. Defendant No. 14, belonging to the Turki Al-Dandani terror cell, was handed a 35-year prison sentence, a SR10,000 fine and a travel ban by the special court in the earlier judgment. The crime sheet against the defendant included murder of security officers, threatening them with a hand grenade when asked to surrender after his hide-out in a Riyadh apartment was raided, and opening fire on security officers and spectators. He was also accused of hijacking a car at gunpoint to flee from the law; joining Al-Qaeda; pledging allegiance to the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... ; and serving as his personal guard in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was also involved in mapping and spying on residential areas for foreigners in the Eastern Province. He was found involved in making plans to fight against the United States and also to kill a journalist. He was also found to have possessed forged documents to facilitate travels of snuffies to the Kingdom, and for terror financing. |
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