A Kuwaiti court on Wednesday acquitted seven Kuwaiti Shi'ites, including two lawmakers, who were accused of eulogizing a slain Hizbullah leader in a ceremony and in a statement to Lebanese and Iranian TV stations earlier this year. The praising of Imad Mughniyeh - a leader of the Lebanese Hizbullah terror group killed in a February car bombing in Syria - caused an uproar in predominantly Sunni Kuwait, where many blame the Lebanese Shiite figure for the hijacking of a Kuwait Airways flight in 1988 and the killing of two of its passengers. Attorney Jalil al-Tabbakh, who represented the defendants, said the criminal court found that eulogizing Mughniyeh as a martyr and a hero was "not a crime." After the militant's death, hundreds of Shi'ites turned up in a Kuwait City suburb to mourn him. Prosecutors subsequently charged the seven men with "spreading false news about the situation in the country" which "weakened the position of the state abroad."