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June 18, 2010

Daily Star - Kuwait asks Lebanon not to hand over detainee to Iraq , June 18,2010

Friday, June 18, 2010
Kuwait asks Lebanon not to hand over detainee to Iraq


By Agence France Presse (AFP)

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has asked Lebanon not to hand over to Iraq a Kuwaiti citizen serving a life term in Beirut for alleged Al-Qaeda links, a Foreign Ministry official said on Thursday.
The ministry has expressed “through official contacts the state of Kuwait’s total rejection of the extradition of citizen Mohammad al-Dossari to any side other than Kuwait,” said the official, cited by the state news agency KUNA.
According to Lebanese media, a military court in January sentenced Dossari and two men from Syria and Tajikistan to life in jail on charges of belonging to Al-Qaeda and plotting attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.
Dossari was arrested at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International airport in December while trying to enter the country on a fake Moroccan passport.
In May, a Kuwaiti court tried and acquitted Dossari and seven other Kuwaitis on charges of plotting to attack a major US army base in the Gulf state. Dossari and another suspect were tried in absentia.
The issue of Dossari was raised by Islamist MP Mohammad Hayef who said the Lebanese government had agreed to an Iraqi request to extradite Dossari to Iraq to face trial on terrorism-related charges. – AFP


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