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Arabia
Police Dismantle Cell Led By Kuwaiti Sheikh
2005-11-23
Sanaa, 23 Nov. (AKI) - The Yemeni security services have dismantled an integralist Islamic cell close to the al-Qaeda network and led by a Kuwaiti sheikh who was also the group's spiritual leader. The Saudi newspaper al-Watan reported that the group was formed by 12 Yemenis who had sworn eternal loyalty to the sheikh, Hasan bin Musa al-Hidi. The cell is said to have mostly issued warnings and threats to the representatives of institutions and the heads of Arab states.

From a religious point of view, the group - which was broken up on Tuesday - had no links with the unlicensed schools in the country which the government is trying to crack down on, but were very interested in politics, and events in Afghanistan in particular, the newspaper said.
Al-Hidi has written several books of a fundamentalist nature, but the police have been unable to establish if he is currently in Yemen or Kuwait, as he escaped shortly before his followers were arrested.
"Curly toed slippers, don't fail me now!"
Before al-Hidi, the Yemeni police dismantled the extremist Shiite group of the late radical leader and former MP Hussein al-Houthi, who led an uprising against the government in summer last year which left hundreds dead, and several groups linked to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, whose father was of Yemeni descent.
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