| Submit your comments on this article |
| Arabia |
| Yemen Opens Trial of 6 'Qaida' Accused of Killing, Kidnap |
| 2014-02-10 |
| [An Nahar] A Yemeni court specializing in terrorism cases began the trial on Sunday of six al-Qaeda suspects accused of murdering a Saudi diplomat and kidnapping a Swiss woman. The defendants, two of them being tried in absentia, are charged with forming part -- between 2011 and 2013 -- of "an gang linked to al-Qaeda," the official Saba news agency reported. The group are accused of murdering a Saudi diplomat in November 2012. Sergeant Khaled Shobeikan al-Anzi, an official at the Saudi embassy's military section in Yemen, was killed along with his bodyguard in Sanaa when gunnies shot up his car. They are also charged with carrying out the kidnapping of language teacher Sylvia Eberhardt from Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... in March 2012, who spent nearly a year in captivity before her release, according to Saba. The next hearing was set for February 23. Yemen is the ancestral home of al-Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden ... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel... and home base of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the network's deadliest franchise according to the United States. AQAP was formed in January 2009 as a merger of the Yemeni and Saudi branches of al-Qaeda. |
| Posted by:Fred |