al-Rabeei Killed in Raid in Sanaa
SAN`A, Yemen - Yemeni security forces on Sunday killed an al-Qaida suspect who was convicted of an attack on a French oil tanker and escaped from prison earlier this year, security officials said.
Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei was killed after anti-terrorism troops raided a house in the capital, San`a, acting on a tip. Another suspected al-Qaida member, Mohammed al-Dailami, also was killed in the raid, while one soldier was wounded, the officials said.
Al-Rabeei and al-Dailami were among 23 convicts who escaped from prison in February.
Reuters via CNN fails to mention 8 of the 11 surrendered were re-released.
SANAA, Yemen (Reuters) — Yemeni forces killed on Sunday two al Qaeda fugitives who had been sentenced to death for an attack on the French oil tanker Limburg in 2002, officials said.
They said forces killed Fawaz al-Rabe’ie and Mohamed Daylami after they raided two buildings in Sanaa where the men were hiding. Forces also arrested an aide to Rabe’ie and were questioning him.
Rabe’ie and Daylami were convicted for the 2002 attack in which a boat laden with explosives rammed the tanker, killing one of the crew. They were also two of 23 inmates, including 13 al Qaeda militants, who escaped their jail in the capital Sanaa last February.
The jailbreak raised questions about Yemen’s security measures among its Western allies and was an embarrassment for Sanaa which has cracked down on militants in the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden and joined the U.S.-led war on terrorism.
Officials say 11 of the fugitives have since surrendered to authorities or were captured by police, four — including Rabe’ie and Daylami — have been killed and only eight militants remain on the run.
The government has offered a $25,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of any of the fugitives.
Last month, Yemen broke up an al Qaeda-linked cell that was behind foiled attacks on oil and gas installations.
The bombers were killed when security forces blew up four rigged cars before they reached their targets in the eastern provinces of Marib and Hadramout.
Militant attacks in Yemen include the suicide bombing in 2000 of the U.S. warship Cole, which killed 17 sailors.
almotamar.net - SANAA- Fawaz al-Rabie, the accused of his affiliation to al-Qaeda organization was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Sana’a.
A security source has mentioned that Fawaz al-Rabie and Mohammed al-Dalai were killed in an exchange of fire while security forces were surrounding the house in which they were hiding in one of Sana’a outskirts and that a third person was arrested.
Al-Rabie was sentenced to death in 2004 after he was condemned with several charges among them the planning for the attack on the French oil tanker Limburg in 202. He managed with 22 others of al-Qaeda members to escape from prison in February 2006. 13 of the escapees have voluntarily surrendered themselves to the authorities; two of them were killed in the two incidents targeting oil installations in Safer and al-Dhabbah last month.
SANA’A, Oct. 1 — Following the hunt for Fawaz Al-Rabeyi, an Al-Qaeda leader sentenced to death, security authorities discovered the terrorist’s hideout on the outskirts of Sana’a, an official Interior Ministry source affirmed.
Al-Rabeyi was sentenced to death for killing a policeman at an Abyan checkpoint. Security authorities also considered him the main plotter in assaulting oil installations in Hadramout and Marib and attempting to attack foreign interests in the capital.
Security authorities besieged his hideout and raided it after Al-Rabeyi refused to surrender and began hurling grenades and firing at policemen. Police then returned fire and shot him dead.
Security stormed another neighborhood hideout, where they found terrorist Mohammed Al-Dailami, an Al-Qaeda element who escaped from a political security jail.
Al-Dailami was killed in confrontations with police while a third terrorist, an aide of Al-Rabeyi, was arrested and imprisoned. In raiding the two terrorist hideouts, policemen discovered arms, hand grenades and other explosives, in addition to numerous books, documents and Al-Qaeda publications.
Security authorities still are investigating the captured terrorist to learn more information about the terrorist cell, which was seized in mid-September in Sana’a with quantities of arms and explosives.
