KUWAIT CITY: The Criminal Court Saturday viewed a videotape showing the will left by Anas Al-Kandari - one of the two men (the other was Jassem Al-Hajeri) who carried out an attack in Failaka killing an American soldier and wounding another, before being killed by other American soldiers — for his family and Muslims all over the world. In the tape, Al-Kandari after reciting some verses from the Holy Quran asks his family to fear God and calls on Muslims all over the world to fight corruption and non-believers, lawyer Adel Al-Abdul Hadi, who is representing two people linked to the case, told the Arab Times.
| No doubt the usual lugubrious vid, complete with green headband... |
The court presided by Judge Ali Al-Debaibi, adjourned the hearing to June 21, in a case filed against 12 men - Suleiman Al-Kandari, Ahmed M. Al-Kandari, Mohamed Al-Kandari, Adnan Al-Kandari, Ibraheem Al-Kandari, Ahmed J. Al-Kandari, Abdullah Al-Kandari, Ghazi Al-Tarrah, Dhari Al-Shimmari, Yousef Al-Kandari, Mostafa Sarab and Saad Al-Saeed - to summon the Forensics expert and the Criminal Evidences Department expert to examine the seized weapons.
| Do you get the impression the Failaka attack may heave been an al-Kandari family project? I hope those aren't all brothers — it would mean poor Mrs. al-Kandari kept having boyz until she ran out of names... |
All the men are facing charges of providing assistance to kill the American soldiers on Failaka island in October 2002. Some of the men have also been charged with belonging to an organisation which considers the society in the country as a society of infidels while others are charged with possessing unlicensed arms and ammunition. When Attorney Adel Al-Abdul Hadi, lawyer for two of the accused, asked the arresting officer, Captain Abdul Aziz Saud, for information on Al-Kandari and Al-Hajeri, Saud said the former was well-known to the State Security Department. He added the SSD immediately identified the corpse of Kandari, while it took some time for the Criminal Evidences Personnel to identify Al-Hajeri’s corpse because he was not known to them. The officer said they had watched the suspects for a long time before the incident because they were part of a gang headed by Anas Al-Kandari. |