Yemen Forgery Trial includes released Saudi Gitmo detainee
who apparently was on his way to Iraq
From Al-Motamar (mouthpiece of the ruling GPC party):
The Specialized Penal Court began Tuesday consideration of the case of 10 persons, among them two Saudis accused of forging identity cards and passports with the intention to travel to Iraq.
The accusation against the two Saudi persons, one of them a wanted man, included that they have given incorrect statements about entering Yemen at the crossing of Hardh claiming they were deported of Saudi Arabia.
The prosecution accused 7 of the group members of agreement and obtaining forged identity cards and passports presented to official authorities while the tenth defendant is accused of giving false statements and obtaining of forged identity card and passport with which he traveled to India and getting a forged commercial record.
In the court session the attorney general Khalid al-Maweri read out the accusation and presented evidence including confessions of the defendants. The session was adjourned to the sitting to be held in a fortnight to enable the prosecution to present the rest of evidence and enable the defense to photocopy the case file of the Saudi defendant Fahd al-Utaibi announcement that he is an escapee from justice.
An escapee from justice, what does that mean, he’s wanted in SA?
Update: Fahd al-Utaibi a/k/a Naif Fahd Al Aseemi Al Utaibi arrived in Saudi Arabia May 18, 2006 from Guantanamo, along with 14 others released by the US. At the time, Human Rights Watch was concerned for his welfare once in Saudi custody.
From the website of Yemen’s Defense Ministry,
26 Septemper News:Penal prosecution in Sana’a accused 10 suspects belonging to Al Qaeda, including two Saudis, one is fugitive from justice in charge of forgery.
According to the indictment read out by the secretary of the Court that two accused “the Saudis” came in Yemen in September 2006 and under the jurisdiction of the prosecution and penal court that illegally incorrect statements were recorded in the official records that they are Yemeni nationality and appeared Yemeni Identity card and forged passports for travel to Iraq for Jihad.
The court decided to emerge the second accused fled from the face of a justice and to read out proofs in the session scheduled on next Tuesday and to enable the defendants of the accused to copy the case file and the accused as follow : Sami Al-Otaibi 24 years, Saudi nationality “student ” and Fahd Al-Otaibi, Ziad Mohammed Sultan 25 years, “student”, Tarek al-Nadjdi 24 years “worker” Najib Abdelwasi Al-Sharabi 27 years, “teacher”, Basil Saleh Almerdouh 28 years “worker” Ali Hussein Al-babikiri 29 years “worker” Sadiq Abdullah Al-Ameri 25 years, “student”, Jamal Abdu Hassan Brugge 29 years “worker” and Sultan Abdul Bari Abu Bakr Al-Afifi 26 years worker from Jeddah city.
Dont tell me that fugitive from justice means that he is not in custody in Yemen. Will advise.
