 Yemeni security forces captured suspected Al-Qaeda member, one of inmates who escaped from a detention facility of the secret service, security sources said Thursday. The defense ministry's SeptemberNet website quoted the sources as saying the security forces captured Ali Abdullah Al-Rimi, who was condemned for four years on terrorism chrages. Al-Rimi was captured in Ma'reb governorate, 180 kilometers East of Sanaa, after the security forces received information from the intelligence about his whereabout, said the sources. Al-Rimi is "one of the most dangerous of the 23 Al-Qaeda militants who escaped from the political security prison in Sanaa last February," they added.
| But he only got four years in jug. Go figure. |
The militants escaped through a tunnel they dug between the prison and a nearby mosque. The tunnel is 44-meter long and three-meter deep. With Al-Rimi now under custody, the number of Al-Qaeda arrestees rises to nine. The government of Yemen set a bounty of USD 600,000 for information leading to the capture of those escaped. |