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| US embassy bomber jailed for 10 years in Yemen |
| 2002-05-18 |
| A Sanaa court sentenced a 25-year-old Yemeni grocer to 10 years in jail for lobbing two grenades at the US embassy here on March 15. Samir Yahia Awadh, who pleaded not guilty to charges of "throwing two grenades against the wall of the embassy, endangering the lives of innocents and damaging the foreign relations of Yemen", broke into tears as judge Mohsen Alwan read out the verdict, the maximum penalty allowed under the law. I'll bet he did. They send Yemeni prisoners to Turkish prisons for good behavior... Prosecutor Said al-Samet alleged that Awadh had admitted "having planned the operation two months earlier," and having acted alone "in solidarity with the Palestinians." However Awadh told the court the confession had been extracted under duress and his defence presented a medical report on his client's psychological condition, telling the court Awadh was mentally disturbed and suffered from schizophrenia. Hey, you can support the Palestinian cause and still be a nut. In fact, it helps. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |