The Court of North Sanaâa decided Sunday that the verdict against the suspect assassin of Jarallah Omar, the socialist leader, and members of the suspectâs gang, would be passed on September 14th while the Socialist Party denounced this step taken by the court, appealing that investigation into the case should reveal the political motives behind the assassin and his group.
| As opposed to strictly criminal motives... |
In its hearing last Sunday, the Judge of the court, Abdulrahman Jahaf refused the appeal made the advocates of the family of Jarallah Omar to return the case to the prosecution for further investigations. During the session, attended by some socialist and opposition leaders, including the YSP Secretary General, Ali Saleh Obad as well as some intellectuals and writers whose names were mentioned in the list of targets of Ali Jarallah and his team, the team of advocates asked the defendant some questions related to the incident, finance and the people he met before assassinating Omar. The suspected assassin confessed before the court of his crime and said he did that because Omar and the other targets were secular people who do not recognize Islam as a religion.
| I'm sure they recognize Islam as a religion. They're just not slavish to Ali's particular brand... |
He also said that he met some people like Dr. Ahmad al-Daghshi who was arrested but later released. In a written paper which he read out before the court, Ali Jarallah said that the other detained suspects have no link to his plan for murdering what he described as âsecular politicians and writers, missionaries and member of the al-Buhrah religious sect.â He said he deceived them by telling them that he could facilitate their travel to Chechnya and Palestine to perform Jihad, pointing out that they had no idea about the messages which he sent to them.
| And don't they feel foolish now?... Oh. They don't. |
He said that he did not plan to create an organization to carry out his ideas, rather he recorded a tape in which he explained his ideas of the necessity that such people should be killed.
| "Yes, yes! Kill them all!" |
He denied that he received finance for such operations and assassination of Omar from Sheikh Abdulmajeed al-Zindani and Mohammed al-Anisi, both of them are leading members of the Islah party and said that he admitted their involvement in the plan because he was beaten up at the intelligence prison.
| "Yeah! They dunnit! Now stop hitting me there!" |
He made it clear that he meant in the beginning to make government officials, including the president, as targets of his operations as they protect such missionaries, seculars and infidels. But he said he excluded the president and top officials as this might have been exploited by the Socialist party. The defendant demanded in a cynical tone that leaders of the Socialist, Nasserite and Baath parties to be tried for their infidelity till they repent. |