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| Yemen Hands Over 29 'Qaida' Militants |
| 2014-02-14 |
| [An Nahar] Yemen has handed over 29 Saudis wanted for suspected links to al-Qaeda, the interior ministry announced on Thursday. "As part of joint efforts between security services in the two countries, the kingdom has received 29 Saudis... (who) had joined al-Qaeda in Yemen," interior ministry front man General Mansur al-Turki told Agence La Belle France Presse. Eleven of them had already been tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and later released from prison in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Yemen's oil-rich neighbor, he said. Nine others were on trial in the kingdom when they fled, said Turki. The defense ministry in Sanaa announced the handover this week without giving details. Saudi authorities are hunting for dozens of the ultra-conservative kingdom's citizens who have joined al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), based in Yemen. Former prisoners at the U.S. Guantanamo prison who had been returned to Saudi Arabia for rehabilitation in December 2006 later escaped to Yemen, two years ago after completing a reform program. Saudi and Yemeni al-Qaeda branches merged in January 2009 to form AQAP, posing a serious threat to Western interests across the region. After a wave of deadly al-Qaeda attacks in the kingdom between 2003 and 2006, Saudi authorities launched a crackdown on the local branch of the group founded by the late the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... , himself Saudi-born. |
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