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| Yemen jails Qaeda militants for plot to kill president |
| 2013-09-16 |
[Al Ahram] A Yemeni court Sunday tossed in the clinkKeep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! three Al-Qaeda Death Eaters to between one and seven years after convicting them of plotting to assassinate President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi and the American ambassador. The same Sanaa court specialising in terrorism cases freed a fourth defendant held on similar charges based on time already served in prison, an AFP correspondent reported. The defendants were accused of conspiring to carry out a suicide kaboom against Hadi using a vehicle laden with explosives, according to the charges read out by presiding judge Hilal Mahfal. But the jacket wallah who was to launch the attack was instead assigned to a different operation by an Al-Qaeda leader. Instead he went kaboom!on May 21, 2012 in a square in central Sanaa, killing nearly 100 soldiers taking part in a military parade marking the anniversary of Yemeni unification in 1990, Mahfal said. It was the largest such bombing in Sanaa since Hadi, who had repeatedly vowed to battle Al-Qaeda, came to power in February 2012. The defendants were also monitoring the movements of US Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein "to prepare to assassinate him," according to the charge sheet. |
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