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| Yemen Frees Qaida-Linked Journalist |
| 2013-07-24 |
[AnNahar] Yemeni authorities on Tuesday released a journalist who incarceratedYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! '>were tossed into the calaboose for three years on charges of promoting al-Qaeda, the state news agency Saba reported. Investigative journalist Abdul Ilah Haydar Shae was tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! on August 16, 2010 on charges of links to al-Qaeda and sentenced the following years to five years in prison. Saba said in a text message he had been freed "after he spent three years in prison for working with al-Qaeda." But Shae will remain under house arrest for two years in line with an earlier court ruling, it said. He was pardoned by President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, it added. Shae was arrested after reporting U.S. involvement in a deadly air raid against al-Qaeda in southern Yemen, according to rights groups that had been calling for his release. Last year, ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province of southern Yemen, noting the strike killed 41 local residents, mostly women and kiddies, and 14 al-Qaeda suspects. Former Yemeni strongman President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... had issued an order for his release in February 2011 but rights groups said it was never carried out due to U.S. pressure. In January 2011, a special court convicted Shae, 34, of "working in the media for the benefit of al-Qaeda, taking pictures of security buildings, embassies and foreign interests in Sanaa, and inciting al-Qaeda to attack them." Shae was close to slain U.S.-born radical holy man Anwar al-Awlaqi. Washington says Awlaqi, killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in September 2011, was linked to a failed 2009 attack on a U.S.-bound airliner, who was killed on September 30 in an air strike in Yemen. Shae, who was employed by Saba, said in July 2010 that security agents had kidnapped and beaten him. An expert on terrorism, Shae is considered one of Yemen's most knowledgeable journalists on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- the network's local affiliate. |
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