German bomber may have detonated inadvertently

Bavaria’s top security official says it’s unclear whether the man who blew himself up at a bar in the town of Ansbach meant to detonate it at the moment he did. State Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, who also says the assailant was in an online chat with a still-unidentified person immediately before the explosion, said yesterday that further investigation is needed. Herrmann said: “Because of witness testimony on what happened and also the course of the chat, there are indeed questions about whether he intended to set off the bomb at that moment.” Attacker Mohammad Daleel, a Syrian asylum-seeker, died and 15 people were wounded when the bomb exploded in a wine bar on Sunday night.

Moroccans arrested in Spain for financing IS

Spain’s Interior Ministry says police have arrested two Moroccan brothers suspected of sending money to finance the armed Islamic State group. A ministry statement said the two sent unspecified amounts of money to the Islamic State group’s financial managers using false identities linked to the organization. It said the group used the remittances to transport militants from different locations. The ministry said the brothers, aged 33 and 22, were arrested yesterday in the northeastern city of Girona. It said a third brother had formed part of the cell but is believed to have died after traveling with his wife and two children to join IS in Syria.

Shiite lawmaker sentenced for Saudi ‘insults’

A lawyer in Kuwait says a criminal court there has sentenced an outspoken Shiite lawmaker to more than 14 years prison for insulting the governments of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Duaim al-Mouaizri, the lawyer who filed the lawsuit against parliament member Abudlhamid Dashti, said yesterday that the lawmaker was sentenced to 11 years and six months in prison for insulting the Saudi royal family, criticizing religion and insulting the judiciary. He was sentenced to an additional three years prison for insulting the Bahraini government. Dashti, whose parliamentary immunity was stripped earlier this year, was tried in absentia.