On 19 February 2008, the Popular Action Bloc expelled Shiite MPs
Ahmed Lari and
Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad for taking part in a ceremony eulogizing
Hezbollah's slain top commander,
Imad Mughniyah. The ceremony's description of the fugitive Lebanese militant – killed in a 12 February
car bombing in
Syria – as a hero sparked public outrage in a country that holds him responsible for hijacking a
Kuwait Airways flight and killing two of its Kuwaiti passengers 20 years ago. The two lawmakers were only expelled from their bloc and remained in the legislature. After the expulsions of the two, the seven member bloc was down to five members. == Election results ==