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172 al-Qaeda members to go on trial in Yemen
2006-04-07
Yemen, which has convicted many suspected militants, will soon put on trial another 172 people for suspected links with Al-Qaeda and terrorism, an official weekly said Thursday.

Security agencies have referred to the public prosecution files about 172 people suspected of affiliation to Al-Qaeda and other terror groups, said September 26, mouthpiece of the defense ministry.

Some of them were arrested on suspicion of plotting armed attacks against domestic and foreign targets in Yemen, it said, quoting a security source.

The report said the prosecution was about to wrap up the interrogations and the suspects would go on trial "in the coming days," but it did not give a specific date.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#9  Suddenly, I got nothin' to say.
Posted by: Yusef Islam   2006-04-07 05:40  

#8  Seems like the ayrabs are going to experience the opposite problem the Chinese and Indians have - after all the killing of islamofruitcakes, the number of eligible men will be about 1/3 the number of eligible women, and the ones left were either too intelligent to fall for the jihad stupidity or too stupid to do the job. That doesn't sound too thrilling for the ayrab women, but it will probably help speed the impending collapse of "arab civilization".
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-04-07 15:29  

#7  LOL Abu!
Posted by: 6   2006-04-07 10:08  

#6  If you've got nothing to say, then shut up.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-04-07 09:17  

#5  Forget it infidel swine, I will confess only after you pry my pick and shovel from my cold dead hands!
Posted by: Abu Miner   2006-04-07 08:56  

#4  lol yeah tunnel mayhem again coming. Maybe a rope bridge to the nearest mosque.
Posted by: ShepUK   2006-04-07 08:23  

#3  Haven't they finished their tunnel yet?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-04-07 07:38  

#2  They aren't away yet, Yusef Islam. And even once convicted, Yemeni authorities are fond of releasing those who say they've seen the error of their ways, or because it's Ramadan, or because a tribal elder did some horsetrading. But at least this 172 are off the streets for a while, which is something.

But overall, I am much comforted at the large number of wannabe jihadis who've been arrested, convicted, expelled, shot, exploded, and just plain disappeared over the last few years since the world has been fighting the War on Terror in earnest. The numbers are in the multiple tens of thousands in Iraq alone, let alone Europe, North America and the Muslim Ummah. Even assuming that 1-2% of Muslims are actively involved in terror-related activities, the ones taken out of the game thus far, whether temporarily or permanently, are the most dangerous because they are the best trained and most aggressive. Those replacing them are no doubt equally ambitious, but they won't have had a decade or more to learn their jobs, there's a lot less money as funding sources continue to be exposed and shut down, and they won't have had the advantage of training by, eg Saddam Hussein's specialists and the equipment at Salaam Pak... although they can still make the pilgimage to Iran for a bit longer.

So most of the time I do feel better. On bad days I read things like the Dan Simmons tale posted yesterday and the day before, and I mourn the death and destruction should the Muslim world insist on total war... which they cannot in the end win, no more than the National Socialists or the International Communists before them.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-04-07 07:33  

#1  wow i read that as 1:72 AQ members go on trial. Didnt know airfix did that model set..
Posted by: ShepUK   2006-04-07 05:29  

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