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| Yemeni killer of U.S. doctors met Al Qaeda members |
| 2003-01-02 |
| The Yemeni gunman who killed three U.S. missionaries earlier this week has confessed to meeting al Qaeda members, including a suicide bomber who attacked the USS Cole, a state-owned Yemeni magazine reported on Thursday. The September 26 weekly said Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel told police he joined Yemen's Islamic Jihad group in 1997 after he met the man who three years later participated in the attack that killed 17 U.S. sailors on board the U.S. destroyer in Aden port. "Kamel also admitted to knowing other al Qaeda members," the newspaper added. "He also told interrogators to kill him since he was going to go to heaven anyway." First find all his friends, then kill him The September 26 weekly said Kamel was linked to another gunman who killed a prominent Socialist opposition politician last week, adding that both men had been planning to target secular politicians and non-Muslims, especially missionaries. The newspaper said the other gunman, Ali Jarallah, told police after his detention that he wished he was a nuclear bomb so he could "blow to smithereens all secularists". "Blow to smithereens?" Somebody has been learning their english from watching old Yosemite Sam cartoons |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 Yemen appears to be an easy place to get a confession. I guess Yemenis believe that confession is good for the soul (or soles of battered feet). |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-01-02 20:34:55 |
| #2 Oooooooo I HATE that rabbit! |
| Posted by: Ali Jarallah 2003-01-02 13:11:30 |
| #1 "Boy! Here I am in heaven! This is really neat... It's hotter than I expected, though... Sa-a-a-y! Ain't you Heinrich Himmler? Boy, who'da thought you'd get to heaven?" |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-01-02 11:55:44 |