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Top Yemeni Terror Suspect Is Alive, Minister Says
The Yemeni leader of a group of fugitive Islamist extremists, who was declared dead after an offensive by security forces in remote southern mountains, is alive and in the hands of the authorities, the interior minister was quoted as saying yesterday.
| Well, who the hell was that who collected his life insurance? |
Cited by the Defense Ministryâs weekly newspaper, September 26, Rashed Al-Almi said that âKhaled Abdennabi was not killed and recently surrendered to the security forces who interrogated him within the framework of the law.â
| I guess I'll have to withdraw my ululation... |
The Yemeni Interior Ministry announced in June that security forces had killed six extremists and arrested 11 others in Jabal Hatat, 120 kilometers northwest of the southern port city of Aden. A police official told AFP at the time that Abdennabi, 35, was one of the six killed and that his burned body had been identified.
| "Yeah. Yeah. That's his elbow. I'm sure of it." |
The dozens of suspected radicals hiding out in the rugged and largely inaccessible region included elements from the Islamic Jihad group and the Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan, as well as sympathizers of Osama Bin Ladenâs Al-Qaeda terror network, according to a Yemeni military official.
âHe (Abdennabi) surrendered 12 days ago after long negotiations with the authorities,â a Yemeni security official told AFP yesterday, adding that â34 of some 150 members of his group were arrested after the assault on Jabal Hatat.â The interior minister, meanwhile, also said that his country was trying to get Qatar to hand over âtwo Yemenis wanted for terrorism and actually detained in Qatar.â A Yemeni delegation is currently in Doha where the authorities have promised to extradite the two men, Almi said.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-10-17 |
