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2008-12-19 Arabia

Yemen: Kidnappers up stakes in German hostage negotiations

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Posted by Fred 2008-12-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 SAN'A, Yemen Kidnappers released on Friday three Germans abducted in Yemen after the Yemeni government paid a $100,000 ransom and agreed to another demand to release tribesmen from prison, officials and a mediator said.

The Germans an aid worker and her visiting mother and father arrived in the capital San'a after their release and met with Yemen's ministers of tourism and interior as well as Germany's deputy ambassador to Yemen, Yemeni security officials said.

The mediators had said the kidnappers' leader, Sheik Abed Rabbo Saleh al-Tam, had also demanded the release of a cleric, Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad, jailed in the United States on terrorism charges.

Al-Moayad was sentenced in 2005 in New York to 75 years in prison for supporting terrorism. In October, an appeals court overturned his conviction and ordered a retrial because of inflammatory testimony about unrelated terrorism cases in his first trial. The demand to release al-Moayad was in addition others made by al-Tam for the release of his son and brother from Yemeni jails.

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-19 18:46|| 2008-12-19 18:46|| Front Page Top

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