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| Yemen seizes al-Qaeda suspect |
| 2003-04-06 |
| The Yemeni authorities have arrested a man suspected by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation of being a member of the al-Qaeda network. Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei - a Yemeni national thought to have been born to Yemeni parents in Saudi Arabia - was one of several men named in an alert by the FBI last year over attacks al-Qaeda were suspected of planning against US interests in Yemen. He and at least one other man were arrested last month in a large-scale search operation backed by helicopters in the northern province of Marib, 160 kilometres (100 miles) north-east of the capital Sanaa, government and police sources said. Another man arrested is suspected of involvement in a November attack on a helicopter belonging to US company Hunt Oil shortly after it took off from Sanaa airport, in which one US man was slightly injured. The FBI had issued an alert on Mr al-Rabeei based on intelligence gathered from al-Qaeda operatives and members of Afghanistan's former Taleban Government currently in US detention in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It's good that they keep rounding them up even when attention is focused elsewhere |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #7 RW: Mmmmmm Good! Frank G: Now you can add Special Forces - to Baghdad Int'l Airport. |
| Posted by: PD 2003-04-06 23:19:33 |
| #6 flown in? the only deliveries lately have tail fins and GPS locators |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-06 17:19:35 |
| #5 RW- I recalled a story a few years ago that qat is a big drug in Iraq too. It is only potent when the leaves are fresh, and it gets (got) flown in daily from some African country. |
| Posted by: Craig 2003-04-06 17:05:32 |
| #4 PD, it's the qat they're chewing. |
| Posted by: RW 2003-04-06 16:32:02 |
| #3 Yemen must some weird place. Here in Saudi I'm USED to two (or three) faced behavior by these paragons of the Religion of Peace, but Yemen is truly one schizo environ, methinks. There must some kind of special deal between the CIA & Fibbies and their Yemeni counterparts, cuz the Gov't is often bristly with us and the populace is, well, demented. I'm not complaining, cuz they keep coming up with guys... Of course, he COULD be a "throw away" - someone they can give up cuz he's served his purpose or became unreliable - or whatever. I hate to be a cynic, but it's pretty hard to make sense out of what happens down there at the far end of the litterbox. |
| Posted by: PD 2003-04-06 16:02:17 |
| #2 They're watching the progress through the "elite" (heh heh) Republican Guards amd quickly calculating how long it would take to do the same in their hellhole country..probably would finish before lunch |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-06 11:42:00 |
| #1 Shoot, they're panicing over Iraq... "Look, we're doing our part to round these guys up -- and uh, do you think we can forget about that whole Cole thing???" |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-04-06 08:13:10 |