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| Yemen's al Qaeda wing vows to free jailed militants |
| 2008-01-14 |
| Al Qaeda in Yemen vowed to free its prisoners from the country's jails and retaliate for the killing of militants by the government. Dozens of al Qaeda militants are serving jail terms in the Arabian Peninsula country for involvement in bombings against Western targets and clashes with the authorities. "By God we shall not rest ... until we free our brothers and sisters from the prisons," the group said in an e-magazine posted on an Islamist Web site late on Saturday. "The blood of Muslims will not go wasted," it said in an article signed by a man who identified himself as Abdul-Aziz. "The Prophet (Mohammad) ... has ordered that we free detainees," it said in the first edition of the magazine it called "The Echoes of Epics". A group of 23 militants including many convicted al Qaeda militants tunneled out of a Sanaa jail in February 2006 with help from fellow Islamists. Several of the escapees have been killed or arrested and some have surrendered to the authorities. The fugitives included the leaders of the 2000 bombing of the U.S. warship Cole and the 2002 attack on the French supertanker Limburg. |
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