International media were not invited to attend a hearing Monday in the Court of State Security where the accused, identified only by the initials AH, heard the charges against him according to UAE daily.
In all, the man is the subject of seven charges, including planning to plant bombs on the Formula 1 circuit in an IKEA store on Yas Island and buses of foreign tourists Abu Dhabi, and planning attacks against a US military base in the UAE and against senior officials of the federation.
According to Gulf News, citing prosecutors, he tried to join jihadists of EI in Iraq, “but as he failed to get there, he chose to work in the Emirates to support the terrorist organization. ”
The man dismissed all charges against him and complained of having been placed in solitary confinement for six months after he was arrested Nov. 21, 2014, the newspaper The National.
His wife, Alaa al-Hashemi, 30, was executed by gunshot on July 13 after being sentenced to death for the murder of an American teacher, killed on 1 December 2014 in the toilets of a shopping center in Abu Dhabi with a kitchen knife.
She was also found guilty of trying to detonate a bomb outside the home of an American doctor of Egyptian origin.
The Emirates, where the local population is only about 10% of people, pledged in September 2014 in the anti-EI international coalition in Syria.
Attacks blamed on jihadis or persons inspired by extremist groups are extremely rare in this rich Gulf monarchy which has a policy of “zero tolerance” vis-à-vis the Islamists.
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