An Iraqi Arab involved in a grenade attack on the El Al office here last September was sentenced in absentia to a five-year prison term by the district court today. The accused, Kamal Abdul Kadir, 33, fled across the border after the grenade incident in which three El Al employes were injured. He was charged with giving hand grenades to two Arab youths, aged 12 and 16, with instructions to throw them into the El Al office. One of the boys escaped but the other was apprehended and will be tried separately behind closed doors at the Brussels Children’s Court.
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