Yemen’s security authorities have expressed reservations over a presidential decree to release around 150 detainees with charges of terrorism and having links with al-Qaeda elements for ‘they still represent a challenge and threat to national security’.
| Seems even more apropos after the weekend's festivities in Riyadh... |
Reliable sources told Yemen Times that high ranking officials are reserved to get these fanatics released and informed the political leadership their resentment over the presidential instructions to set them free in response to the committee of clerics involved in dialogue with the detainees. Security officials argue that they do not trust the undertaking made by the detainees that they would give up their fanatic views and not target foreign interests in Yemen.
| Trust them about as far as you can throw them, guys... |
These extremists, according to security officials, depend on a juristic rule that they can lie in issues relating to Jihad duties and therefore they lie to authorities and the committee that they have relinquished their extremist ideas and therefore go to practice or plan for terrorist operations after they are released.
| I guess lies among Islamists are harder to pull off than lies to infidels, huh? |
Some weeks ago, the Minister of Interior, Dr. Rashad al-Alimi, confirmed that some of the released fundamentalists were found red-handed, planning or taking part in some terrorist operations. Security authorities insist that they are not obliged to carry out recommendations of the committee of clerics set by President Ali Abdullah Saleh to convince those extremists to give in their fanatic beliefs and live normally in the society. They believe that it is they who should decide whether to release or continue holding those extremists in custody.
| That's because it's their guys who get shot trying to run the bastards down. I wouldn't trust anything an Islamic cleric told me, either, and they know about it better than I do — they get the Islamic Truth™ first hand... |
The sources said that the number of the detainees mount to 240 militants and that the number of those who will be tried is to raise to 65 including those extradited to Yemen by some countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran and Oman, instead of 40 as announced by the committee. |