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| Al-Qaeda financier in Yemen arrested |
| 2010-10-18 |
| [Al Arabiya] Yemeni security forces jugged in Sanaa airport al-Qaeda financier Saleh al-Rimi while on his way from Saudi Arabia, where he permanently resides. Meanwhile two intelligence officers were critically injured when a car owned by one of them exploded in front of the intelligence office in the city of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan governorate in south-western Yemen. Three soldiers were also killed in an ambush set by al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys and which targeted a military convoy on the road to the village of Mudiyah The village of Lawder witnessed sporadic clashes between Yemeni security forces and al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys which left one soldier killed and one injured while the campaign to track down members of the terrorist group continued in the governorate. In Mudiyah, security forces jugged another suspect known for his links to al-Qaeda and found bombs, explosives, and wireless communication devices in his possession. The Yemeni Interior Minister Major General Motahar Rashad al-Masri that the security officer who killed a French company manager in Sanaa has links to al-Qaeda and declared the murder terrorist and not criminal as sources mentioned earlier. In the same vein, the Yemeni Interior Ministry offered a 20 million riyal ($ 100,000) reward for information on eight snuffies linked to al-Qaeda, state media reported Sunday. The eight are Amin al-Othmani, Bashir al-Haleesi, Shawki al-Baadani, Abul Ellah al-Mesbahi, Abdul Hamid al-Hubaishi, Mohamed al-Nasheri, Mosleh al-Haleesi, and Yusuf Zayoud. Yemeni authorities are currently launching expansive campaigns to track down al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys in the governorates of Abyan, Shabwah, Hadramaut, and Maarib. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Do a search for "France, burka ban, deportation..." |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-10-18 23:14 |
| #2 Al Q is after Fwance, WHY? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-10-18 17:53 |
| #1 Interesting connections made in an article in yesterday's Telegraph ("Saudis warn of new terror threat in Europe"): Saudi intelligence services have warned of a new terror threat from al-Qaeda against Europe, particularly in France, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said yesterday. He said the warning of a potential attack by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was received "in the last few hours, few days." The warning may be linked to a series of arrests announced in recent days of senior operatives of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. At the beginning of last month, Saudi police say, one of the former Guantánamo inmates, Jabir Jubran al-Fayfi, contacted them to say he wanted to return home. He handed himself in to the Yemeni authorities, and was transferred to Riyadh. In the last few days, the Yemen state news agency Saba has reported the subsequent arrests at Sana'a airport of Khaled al-Obeidi, a Yemeni accused of kidnapping a Japanese engineer in 2009, and, more significantly, Salah al-Raimi, 33, a Saudi citizen who appears to have been able to coordinate financing for al-Qaeda operations from his home in the kingdom. Things that make you say "Hmmmm". |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-10-18 12:13 |