KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait freed a prisoner serving a life sentence for plotting a string of bombing attacks on targets including US and French embassies in the 1980s, a top official said. “The decision to pardon the man was taken in accordance with guidelines and rules governing such a process,” foreign ministry undersecretary Khaled al-Jarallah said in a statement cited by the KUNA news agency late Wednesday. He was referring to Saad Yassin al-Theyabi, a Kuwaiti national, who was convicted of plotting deadly attacks on the US and French embassies and the Kuwait airport tower in December 1983. Theyabi was also convicted of masterminding deadly car bombings on two cafes in July 1985, killing 11 people and wounding 89.
