The Al-Hikma Al-Yamania (Yemeni Wisdom) Charitable Society denied charges against some of its members of having links to al-Qaeda. Charges against the society's members in Aden, Abyan and Sana'a offices of providing financial and logistic aids to Yemeni and Saudi militants to recruit fighters and smuggling them to Iraq are baseless," said the secretary-general of the Society sheikh Farouk Abdul-Wasei Mohammad. He said the society works in field of welfare according to the law of the social affairs and labor.The Al-Tajamoa newspaper reported that al-Qaeda associates move through Al-Hikma Al-Yamania Society as a civil and charitable organization. It said that a lead figure in the society admitted after he was arrested that he was involved in smuggling a person to fight in Iraq. The paper said Monday that security reports had revealed that members in the society give financial and logistic support to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
We strongly deny what Al-Tajamoa has reported and we confirm that our society has no links to those organizations mentioned in the paper, said sheikh Mohammad. Sheikh Mohammad said that such charges aim to fight welfare services in the country. "The society will respond to the paper and reserves its right to refer to justice," said sheikh Mohammad.