An Australian woman arrested in Yemen for suspected links with al Qaeda was released on Friday and deported from the country together with her two young children, a security source said.
"The Australian woman has been freed and taken to the airport in a police car. She was reunited with her two children at the airport, and the three of them left the country headed for Dubai," he said, on condition of anonymity. Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said earlier this week that the two countries had agreed on Shylogh Giddens, a convert to Islam who was in Yemen to learn Arabic, being deported together with her two children. Giddens was arrested on May 15 by intelligence services.
| It must be pretty bad when a person -- a woman! -- is too extreme for Yemen to tolerate. |
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