KUWAIT CITY : Plotting a Verdict
Kuwait’s state security court is to render its verdict Saturday in the cases of 14 people accused of plotting under Iraqi direction to assassinate former President George Bush during a private visit last April.
More than half the defendants could face the death penalty for varying levels of involvement in a plot that the Kuwaiti government asserts included plans to bomb sites where Bush was scheduled to receive honors for his role in leading the coalition that liberated Kuwait from Iraq in 1991.
Defense attorneys insisted in their closing arguments that most of the defendants are whiskey smugglers with no knowledge of the plot.
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