SANAA â Yemen has arrested 195 people with suspected links to the Al-Qaeda terror network, including eight connected to the attacks on a US destroyer and a French oil tanker off Yemen, Interior Minister Brig. Rashad Al-Alimi said yesterday.
| I think that's the cumulative total, counting from x (unstated) date... |
âIn all 195 people accused of belonging to Al-Qaeda remain in custody for their insistence on the ideas they believe in,â Al-Alimi reported to the House of Deputies during a debate on terror-related detainees. Some 95 others have been released after they were persuaded by leading clerics to turn their back on extremism and correct their beliefs, he said.
| "Go, and sin no more! Or at least don't get caught..." |
Of the 195, five are suspected of links to the suicide bombing of the US Navy destroyer USS Cole at the southern port of Aden in October 2000, the minister said, adding that eight other accomplices were still on the run. Earlier in the week, Al-Alimi told journalists that Saudi Arabia would extradite to Yemen eight fugitives, some of them involved in the Cole bombing that killed 17 US sailors. Out of ten suspected plotters of last Octoberâs attack on the French oil supertanker Limburg off the southeastern coast, only three have been arrested and the search for the other seven is continuing, the minister said. He vowed to send all the detained terror suspects to courts for trial.
Have they actually shot anybody yet? Or hanged them? Has there been any serious jail time handed out?
Still waiting... |
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