Kuwait Seeks Death Penalty for 11 of 29 Terror Suspects
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SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015 RAMADAN 29, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Nuclear deal Saudi-backed Jamaica and will boost forces take Costa Rica Emsak: 03:16 Iran’s power, Aden port advance in Fajer: 03:26 Shrooq 04:59 Arabs worry from Houthis Gold Cup Dohr: 11:54 Asr: 15:28 Maghreb: 18:49 7 9 20 Eshaa: 20:19 Kuwait seeks death penalty Min 28º Max 49º for 11 of 29 terror suspects High Tide 00:20 & 11:30 2 suspects currently fighting with IS 5 to be tried in absentia Low Tide • 05:35 & 18:50 40 PAGES NO: 16583 150 FILS KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Public Prosecution has demanded Ramadan Kareem the death penalty for 11 of 29 suspects charged over the suicide bombing of a Shiite mosque last month, a What after Ramadan newspaper reported yesterday. Al-Qabas, citing informed sources, said two of the suspects are current- By Zeinab Hassan Ashry ly fighting with the Islamic State jihadist group which claimed the attack. The June 26 bombing, carried out he Blessed month has passed. Ramadan ! Indeed by a Saudi, was the bloodiest in Kuwait’s history and we are fore welling you with sadness. Indeed ! We left 26 people killed and more than 200 wounded. Twish if all months of the year were Ramadan. Now Those charged are seven Kuwaitis, five Saudis, three the month of Ramadan has passed and so our life will Pakistanis, 13 stateless people known as Bedoons, and pass day after day and month after month and year after another person at large whose identity is unknown, year till our appointed time comes and our term ends and the prosecution said Tuesday. Twenty-four suspects then we must leave this world to the Next-world to meet are detained in Kuwait and the other five are to be with Allah. As Al-Hassan Al-Basry said :”O son of Adam! tried in absentia, including two Saudi brothers who your life is nothing but countable days; when a day pass- allegedly transported the explosives and are being es, indeed, a part of you has passed (that will never come held in Saudi Arabia. Al-Qabas said some of the sus- back).” pects were also charged with joining a “terrorist” Be grateful to Allah organization fighting against the state. The first thing to do after Ramadan is to remind our- Two of the suspects have been charged with pre- selves of Allah’s great favors upon the Moslem nation and meditated murder and attempted murder. Two others give thanks to Him for the countless blessings and ever- were charged with training in the use of explosives, lasting gifts He showered upon us during Ramadan. nine with assisting in the crime and the rest with Evaluate your fast knowing of the attack without informing the authori- The next step is to evaluate your fast to find out if you ties. An IS-affiliated group calling itself Najd Province have benefited fully from the experience of fasting claimed the bombing and also said it carried out sui- Ramadan. cide attacks on two Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia in Continued on Page 13 KARACHI: A Pakistani Muslim girl prays at a mosque in Karachi on the 28th night of the holy month of May. IS considers Shiites to be heretics and has target- Ramadan. — AFP ed them across the region. — AFP News US remains Iran’s ‘Great Satan’ despite deal in brief More than 50 IS child soldiers killed in Syria UAE deports Australian BEIRUT: More than 50 child soldiers recruited by the Islamic State group in Syria have been killed since the for an ‘insulting’ post beginning of this year, a monitoring group said yester- ABU DHABI: An Australian woman was tation. She appeared in court with a lawyer day. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it deported from the United Arab Emirates on and interpreter to appeal against the verdict had documented the deaths of 52 child soldiers, all Tuesday after being arrested and fined for the following month, but to no avail and her under the age of 16, who had been part of IS’s “Cubs of “insulting” social media posts, according to a sentence was confirmed in June. Magi post- the Caliphate” program. The program provides intense judicial source in Abu Dhabi. Jodi Magi, 39, ed on her personal website late Tuesday military and religious training to children throughout appeared in an Abu Dhabi court and was that she was going to “decompress in Laos” IS’s areas of control in Syria, the Britain-based taken into custody on July 12 before being after being in custody for 53 hours. Observatory said. As many as 31 were killed in July placed on a flight to Bangkok-her “destina- She said she had been “shackled at the alone, in explosions, clashes, and air strikes by Syria’s tion of choice”-on Tuesday evening, the ankles, strip-searched, blood tested, forced regime and the US-led coalition. The child soldiers are same source said. The trouble began in to sleep on a concrete floor without a mat- used to man checkpoints or gather intelligence from February, when she posted on her tress or pillow and having no access to toilet areas outside IS control, but IS has been increasingly Facebook page a photo of a car illegally paper or eating utensils”. using them to execute prisoners or conduct suicide parked between two places reserved for dis- “Obviously, I think a (Aus$3600) fine and attacks. So far this year, IS has used eight children as sui- abled drivers near her apartment in Abu deportation with a complimentary incarcer- cide bombers, most recently in its fight against Kurdish Dhabi. ation period was an extreme reaction to a militia in northeastern Syria. “This shows that Daesh is The picture was accompanied by “insult- jpg (image) of a car posted to a closed exploiting the suffering of the Syrian people,” said ing, degrading remarks”, said the source. Facebook page, when I did not swear or NATANZ: Picture shows the Iranian nuclear power plant of Natanz, 270 kms Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman, using the Following a complaint from the car’s owner, mention a single name and blocked the reg- south of Tehran. Iran by agreeing a pact with world powers has accepted tempo- Arabic acronym for IS. a European, Magi admitted having posted istration plate,” Magi added in a long post on rary curbs on its nuclear programme, but it has not abandoned atomic research the photo online but not the incriminating her website. Magi said she was “pretty trau- and long-term uranium enrichment plans. — AFP text, the source added. In April, the matized” by the experience, but added to Australian was sentenced in absentia to pay being “forever heartbroken” by stories of the TEHRAN: A chiefly US-led nuclear deal But it was the return of Iran’s long- Man accidentally a fine of 10,000 dirhams ($2,720) and depor- other women she met while in jail. — AFP between world powers and Iran has been exiled religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah blows himself up held up as a harbinger to re-establishing Khomeini that precipitated a full break in DUBAI: A man accidentally blew himself up as he formal relations but historical enmity ties with Washington. Khomeini’s found- tried to plant a bomb targeting police in a Shiite makes broader detente a difficult ing of a revolutionary state gave birth to Muslim village in Bahrain, the Interior Ministry said prospect. Both nations have reasons for the “Death to America” slogan and it was yesterday. Several police officers have been killed distrust and a legacy of differences live he, as the Islamic republic’s first supreme over the past year in a series of attacks in the king- on in the chants of “Death to America” leader, who dubbed the US “the Great dom where discontent remains entrenched more that ring out at public ceremonies, even Satan”. The derogatory moniker was than four years after mass protests by majority Shiites demanding reforms and a bigger role in govern- parliament, in the Iranian capital. For the recently described as “remarkable” by ment. One officer was killed after a bomb went off United States, the 444-day hostage crisis present supreme leader Ayatollah Ali near East Eker, south of the capital Manama, in July that followed the storming of its embassy Khamenei, who had the final word for last year. “Person killed himself in blast while trying to in Tehran by revolutionary students in Iran on the nuclear deal in Vienna, only plant a bomb in East Eker. Bomb was meant to target 1979 remains the defining moment. weeks after having said the US could not police. Investigation opened,” the ministry wrote on The event shattered the presidency of be trusted in the talks. its Twitter feed. The Sunni-ruled island, which hosts Jimmy Carter and images of diplomats Giant anti-US slogans cover the walls the US Fifth Fleet, says it has made strides in political wearing black blindfolds still exemplify its of Tehran buildings and “Death to reform and is increasing monitoring for abuses by harrowing place in the US public con- America” is heard every Friday at prayers security forces. Opponents and rights groups say sciousness. In modern-day Iran, however, in the mosques-a stance incompatible abuses continue. Bahrain freed prominent dissident the embassy building remains known as with better ties in the minds of many Nabeel Rajab on health grounds on Tuesday, more the “Den of Spies” given its role as a stag- Americans.