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| Father of Package Suspect, " My Daughter is Innocent." |
| 2010-11-01 |
| [Yemen Post] The father of the terror suspect Mohammed Al-Samawi, Engineer at the Ministry of Agriculture and Water, said to Yemen Post "My daughter is innocent." He believes that there is a big misunderstanding and has appointed HOOD Human Rights Organization to defend his daughter and wife. The suspect's name is Hanan Al-Samawi, and is a 5th year University Student at Sana'a University. The mother, Amatulillah Mohammed, who was also imprisoned, is in bad medical condition according to HOOD. The family lawyer, Abdul Rahman Barman, who represents HOOD, commented on the matter saying, "the family of the prisoners contacted us and informed us to help." "We are in the process of gathering information from her friends and family and from the university." He added, "we are dealing with the matter with great concern. They were taken to an unknown place; we believe they were taken to the National Security Prison." The mother, who was also imprisoned, is named Amatulillah Mohammed. Police in Sana'a raided their house and arrested them in connection with the terror packages sent to the United States onboard flights that originated in Yemen. The arrest took place when ten security vehicles including one carrying policewomen surrounded their house in Mathbah district. Her father works for an oil company in Hadramout province. According to sources close to the two females, they did not have political leanings or links with any group, and their arrest came after the authorities had found the student's phone number and ID copy on the suspicious packages seized in UK and Dubai. The arrest took place when ten security vehicles including one carrying policewomen surrounded their house in Mathbah district. Saleh: We will Cooperate with the International Community I called British Prime Minister David Cameron and we agreed to form a joint panel to investigate the incident, President Saleh told reporters, at a time when the west's concerns about Al-Qaeda in Yemen are growing. Yemen will continue the war on terrorism with available national potentials, he said, reiterating Yemen's refusal to any external intervention in the terror operations on the Yemeni soil. Meanwhile, sources at the Yemen offices of the UPS and FedEx Companies said the Yemeni police confiscated today other suspicious packages and are examining them. The police are investigating about 26 more packages and have already arrested some workers of the companies in connection with all packages, the sources said. They, however, did not give names involved in the alleged plots, as they said Yemen's anti-terror efforts are applauded and come within the global terror campaign. Obama Calls President Saleh over Two Explosive Packages Sent from Yemen The President of the United States of America, Barak Obama spoke with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh as they agreed to strengthen cooperation to confront Al-Qaeda and to enhance the security of Yemen, the same sources reported. As two explosive packages sent from Yemen and carried by FedEex and USP parcel services, the spotlights has been put again on Yemen, Yemeni expert in Al-Qaeda affairs told the Yemen Post, and said it could be a new tactic by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Earlier, the government said there were no UPS cargo planes that had taken off from Yemen or any indirect or direct flights to British or American airports. Al-Qaeda in Yemen previously has spawned plots against commercial U.S-bound flights. In the past 18 months, the Al-Qaeda offshoot in Yemen has grown stronger, and its members have been implicated in several plots against U.S. targets, including the futile attack last Dec. 25 on an airliner landing in Detroit, Michigan. |
| Posted by:Fred |