Kuwait

A Kuwaiti criminal court acquitted eight members of an al Qaeda cell who were on trial for attempting to attack the US military base at Arifjan. Two of the men were being tried in absentia; one of them is on trial in Lebanon for al Qaeda links.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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