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Confirmed: Yemen holds Jaber al-Baneh
SANAA - Jaber al-Baneh, a Yemeni-born American terror suspect with a five-million-dollar US bounty on his head, is in custody in Yemen, the ruling General Peopleâs Congress (GPC) said Thursday. "Al-Baneh, who is accused by the United States of heading the âLackawanna sixâ cell and has a five-million-dollar prize on his head, has been under interrogation in a Yemeni prison for several weeks," a security source was quoted as saying on the website of President Ali Abdullah Salehâs party.Wonder if they were doing the "interrogation" for us? The unnamed source did not say when or where the terror suspect was detained. Al-Baneh, born 39 years ago in the Yemeni province of Daleh, never returned to the United States from Afghanistan and was the only member of the cell still at large. US authorities offered a five-million-dollar reward for information leading to his capture. The GPCâs website did not say if negotiations were under way with the United States for his extradition. "Cash, check, or put it on your account?" But Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Kurbi is due in Washington on February 3 for talks with US officials expected to cover cooperation in fighting terrorism, according to a report Thursday in the official weekly September 26. Bringing him along as a gift? Kurbi will hold talks with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and FBI director Robert Mueller, said September 26, mouthpiece of the Yemeni defense ministry. Yes, the story said "mouthpiece". Posted by: Steve 2004-01-30 |
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