Five Saudi men appeared in a state security court in the Yemeni capital Sanaa yesterday charged with plotting attacks against Americans in Yemen allegedly on the orders of the Al-Qaeda network. The five men, Majid Ahmad Al-Zahrani, Muhammad Musaifir Al-Quraishi, Muhssein Mubarak ibn Ubaid, Saad Abdul-Ghani Al-Bloushi and Muhammad Falah Al-Qahtani were among a group of 17 suspected Al-Qaeda members charged in the case. The other 12 defendants are Yemenis.| I wonder if these are the guys referred to in the Debka article? Or are they a second bunch? |
Prosecutors told the court the group had planned to carry out attacks on places frequented by Americans living in Yemen, including a five-star hotel in the southern port city of Aden. “Some of the accused had returned from Iraq after Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi gave them orders to carry out attacks against Americans in Yemen,” prosecutor Khaled Al-Mawri told the court. He said the suspects had prepared weapons, explosives and forged identity cards for the attacks, and that they had surveyed the targeted locations and drawn up maps.