The Good Jihad
On Feb. 25 Yemen`s Specialized State Security Penal Court tried 17 suspects accused of forming an armed unit to attack Western interests in the country. The Specialized State Security Penal Court hearing listened to evidence from the prosecution, which included suspects` confessions and seized materials, including weapons, bombs, computers, bogus stamps and identity cards, explosives and electrical devices to wire mobile phones to use for remote detonation.The suspects acknowledged that the prosecution`s investigations were correct, But they claimed that their materials were being prepared to use against U.S. forces in Iraq.
So with no legal prohibitions against going to Iraq to make IEDs against the US troops, this is a legitimate defense (that they weren’t planning on killing anyone in Yemen, just Iraq.)
Technically are the Yemeni training camps, financing and logistics supporting the insurgency in Iraq legal in Yemen too? I guess the travel documents are only illegal if they are forged. But what about killing Iraqi civilians, there’s no law against that in Yemen either?
