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| American terror suspect on trial in Yemen |
| 2010-10-29 |
| [Arab News] An American who was jugged on suspicion of having links with Al-Qaeda has been charged with the murder of a Yemeni soldier and the wounding of another during a failed escape attempt. The 26-year-old American of Somali descent, Sharif Mobley, was charged Wednesday by a criminal court for killing one of his guards and wounding another while attempting to escape from a hospital where he was receiving treatment in March. He was in originally in jug for links to Al-Qaeda. US officials say Mobley, who grew up in Buena, N.J., traveled to Yemen more than two years ago with the goal of joining a terror group and that the US government was aware of his potential bad boy ties long before his arrest. Yemeni prosecutors on Wednesday also charged a leading self-rule activist from the formerly independent south in twin kabooms earlier this month in the regional capital Aden. In a charge sheet read out in court at the second hearing in the trial of five men accused of involvement in the Oct. 11 bombing, prosecutors alleged that lead defendant Faris Abdullah Saleh had fingered Shalal Ali Al-Shaea, leader of the Southern Movement in Daleh province, in a confession. All five defendants disavowed their testimony to police at the opening hearing on Sunday. Defense lawyer Mohammed Al-Aqla told Wednesday's hearing it had been given under duress. Prosecutors told the court that Saleh had told investigators that Shaea had given him two bombs to blow up the Al-Wahda sports club in Aden in a bid to sabotage the 20th Gulf Cup football tournament which is due to be held in the city and in nearby Abyan from Nov. 22. The judge set the next hearing for Nov. 3. The bombing, which no group has grabbed credit for, killed three people and maimed 14. It threw doubt on Yemen's ability to stage the Gulf Cup which pits Yemen against Iraq and the six Gulf Arab states. Aden's security chief Gen. Qiran Abdullah said on Saturday that "all necessary measures... to ensure security in the provinces of Aden, Abyan, and Lahij during the Gulf Cup" had been taken, the Defense Ministry reported. The Southern Movement is a coalition of autonomist and pro-independence factions that has held repeated demonstrations across the region in recent months. The south has also seen a rash of attacks by loyalists of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 execute him. We don't want him back |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-10-29 08:41 |
| #1 AMERICAN IN YEMEN versus * WORLD NEWS > AMERICAN AL-QAEDA MILITANTS NOW POSE THE GREATEST THREAT TO US. and * SAME > THE JIHAD INSIDE AMERICA. VERSUS * SAME > UK: AL QAEDA IS HERE; HOW A US BRANCH OF THE TERROR ORGANIZATION IS NOW OUR "BIGGEST THREAT". * PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > WHAT [WTH] IS WRONG WID EUROPEAN MUSLIMS? [MEL "BRAVEHEART" GIBSON + IRELAND'S "DANNY BOY" here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-10-29 01:05 |