SANAA - Yemen began the trial on Sunday of four Iraqis charged with plotting to bomb the US and British embassies in the capital Sanaa in 2003. The four defendants, one being tried in absentia, were also charged with spying for the government of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.Security sources said three of the defendants were arrested in 2003 with bags of explosives in their possession. The men had worked as teachers in Yemen since 2002. The three Iraqis who were present at court, all in their 40s, pleaded innocent and said they had been coerced into confessing to the charges.
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Like most Arab countries, Yemen was opposed to the 2003 US-led war on Iraq but it has cooperated closely with the United States in its war on terror.
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