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Kuwaiti jailed for troop attack
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (CNN) -- A judge Wednesday sentenced a Kuwaiti policeman to 15 years in jail for a shooting attack last year that left two U.S. soldiers wounded, his attorney said. Khalid Al-Shimira was arrested by Saudi authorities in late November, a day after the attack in Kuwait. He was convicted of stopping a civilian vehicle outside Kuwait City and shooting two U.S. soldiers, who were not in uniform. Master Sgt. Larry Thomas, 51, was shot in the arm and Sgt. Charles Ellis, 27, was shot in the face. The shooting took place as the U.S. soldiers were traveling between Camp Doha -- a U.S. military base -- and Oraifijan, a U.S. military spokesman said. U.S. soldiers in the area do not wear uniforms when they are traveling off-base apparently in order to maintain a low profile, the spokesman said. Al-Shimiri received 10 years for attempted murder and five years for unlawful possession of a weapon, according to his attorney, Nawwaf Al-Mutairi. Al-Mutairi said his client issued a plea of insanity in the trial, which began on February 5, and he denounced the verdict, saying the judge did not take enough time to consider the evidence. The shooting is one of a string of attacks and threats against U.S. soldiers stationed in Kuwait. A Kuwaiti civil servant will go on trial on March 12 for killing a U.S. computer contractor and wounding another American, his attorney said. Sami al-Mutairi, 25, has denied carrying out the January 21 shootings. Michael Rene Pouliot, 46, was killed, and David Caraway, 37, was wounded when they were ambushed on a road leading to Camp Doha in northern Kuwait. Both were working with the U.S. military. On October 8, two Kuwaiti gunmen suspected of having ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network carried out an attack against U.S. troops on Failaka Island, killing one Marine and injuring another. U.S. military police chased down the two assailants, who were dressed in civilian clothes and driving a pickup truck, and shot them dead, according to U.S. officials.
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