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| Kuwaiti court bails six suspects in Iraq jihad group |
| 2004-09-16 |
| A Kuwaiti judge yesterday freed on bail six men suspected of links to a group of activists charged with recruiting anti-US fighters for Iraq, their lawyer said. The suspects were released on bail of 300 dinars ($1,000) each, Abdulrahman Al Rasheedi told AFP. This brings the number of those bailed to 15 with just one suspect remaining in police custody pending further investigations. The authorities are also pursuing four other men who include the spokesman for the Association of Victims of Torture and Arbitrary Arrest, Khaled Al Dossari. Three of the suspects are teenagers, two of whom are charged with having travelled to Iraq's restive city of Fallujah to fight US forces, while the third was arrested by Syrian security forces along with a fourth man just before trying to cross into Iraq. The four were extradited by Syria to Kuwait in July and that led to a crackdown in which security forces arrested 12 more suspects. The suspects are accused of illegal possession of arms, plotting to carry out attacks against US forces and joining a terrorist organisation, but they denied the charges. |
| Posted by:Fred |