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Drug Addict in ‘Jihadist’s’ Garb Detained by Police for Questioning
Arab Times ^ | 2/5/09 | Moamen Al-Masri

Posted on 02/05/2009 2:14:57 PM PST by nickcarraway

The Public Prosecution Wednesday ordered the detention of a Kuwaiti man until Thursday when he will be summoned again for interrogation in a case which has been filed against him for going to Afghanistan to carry out hostile acts against the allied forces and consuming drugs.

Case papers indicate the suspect, a former drug addict, decided to go to Afghanistan to consume drugs and grew his beard to give him the look of a Jihadist.

After arriving in Afghanistan the man joined a training camp and one week later asked fellow trainees to guide him to the place where hashish is grown. When he arrived at the spot, he took to consuming drugs, says the case papers.

When the Taleban saw him, they were shocked and they came to the conclusion that he had not come to Afghanistan to fight a holy war. So, they asked him to leave.

When he returned to Kuwait, he was in a disoriented condition and he was referred to the concerned authorities.

During interrogation by the Public Prosecution he admitted to going to Afghanistan for ‘Jihad’ and consuming drugs.

Meanwhile, in another case, the Court of Appeals Wednesday set March 12, 2009 to allow the defense team for former MP Jamal Al-Omar and other accused to prepare their argument in the appeal they have filed to cancel the Court of First Instance verdict which has sentenced them to three years in jail and ordered them to pay KD 1,000 to suspend the sentence.

They were accused of paying bribe to voters during the 2008 parliamentary elections. The accused have denied the charges.

The Public Prosecution had charged Omar, his secretary, an announcer of the Channel Three and three women with paying KD 500 to each voter to cast a vote in favor of the contestant.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; jihadist; junky

1 posted on 02/05/2009 2:14:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Slings and Arrows

Some people will go to great lengths to get drugs.


2 posted on 02/05/2009 2:15:41 PM PST by nickcarraway (Are the Good Times Really Over?)
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To: nickcarraway
I was in Afghanistan in 2003. Every so often you would see westerner. Mostly hippie types.

You can buy pot for 50 cents a pound at nearly every street corner. Vast fields of the stuff grow everywhere.

It is a paradise for some...

3 posted on 02/05/2009 2:21:29 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Does so
Afghanistan could start a burgeoning tourist industry for Libertarians!

:-\

4 posted on 02/05/2009 2:37:50 PM PST by Does so (White House uncomfortable? Sleeplessness? The Øbama will quit before 6 months are up.)
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To: nickcarraway

What’s with kids these days.

His grandfather was a jihadist. His father was a jihadist. He had a bright future in jihadism. Instead he sleeps all day and hangs out with his friends all night.


5 posted on 02/05/2009 2:48:58 PM PST by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: 2banana
I was in Afghanistan in 2003. Every so often you would see westerner. Mostly hippie types. You can buy pot for 50 cents a pound at nearly every street corner. Vast fields of the stuff grow everywhere. It is a paradise for some...

and the reefer they sell is particularily potent. Talked to a non-American contractor who was in Kabul last year for a month and he tells about the ease of buying almost pure heroin in certain parts of the city for American dollars. He was tempted to bring back a couple of bricks of heroin, but, lucky for him, he thought better of it. What he did return to the states with was a King Kong heroin habit that forced him into a 6 month rehab program which his American company paid for.

6 posted on 02/05/2009 3:47:17 PM PST by Larry381 (Politicians are like diapers - they should be changed frequently, and for the same reason)
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