SR4000 to go to Iraq
Is this is the guy who was going to Iraq with five others and got turned around in Syria and headed to Lebanon where he was captured with Fatah Al-Islam? Or is it another one with the same story? He gets five years for document fraud. Most jihaddis traveling to Iraq with false passports get three years. Let see how long he stays in for, if he goes to jail at all. So the payment is in Saudi funds, that says something. But al-Motamar in one article says 400 and in the next says 4000 SR. News Yemen says 4000 SR.
almotamar.net - The Specialised Criminal Court approved Tuesday fixing the date of next Saturday to pronounce verdict against the defendant accused of being affiliated to al-Jihad group.
In the first sitting for trial of the defendant held Tuesday the accusation statement was read out and included that the accused had forged a passport and personated his brother Sanad and used that to travel to Iraq and mislead authorities at the airports of Sana’a, Cairo and Damascus.
Judicial sources disclosed to almotamar.net the arrest of the accused Bashir Raweh Nouman in late of Muharam month of Hegira year in Syria while he was leaving for a camp of Fatah al-Islam of al-Qaeda organisation for training there and pointed out his being handed over to Yemen after he was arrested in the Syrian city of Hims.
In his reply to the court question he said he received 400 Saudi riyals from a person called Khalil who had asked him to go to Iraq for Jihad and coordination for him with other persons to receive him at airports.
In another case the Specialised First Instance Criminal Court in Sana’a condemned the defendant Tawfiq Abdullah Yahya al-Maswari of highway robbery that resulted in killing and sentenced him to death.
Five year sentence
almotamar.net - The Specialised Criminal Court in Yemen on Saturday condemned defendant Bashir Mohammed Raweh of his affiliation with the Jihad Group and al-Qaeda organisation and that is in its second sitting of his trial.
The Judge Muhsin Alwan, chairman of the court decided to give the defendant five-year sentence staring from the date of his arrest.
Representative of prosecution had in the sitting of last Tuesday read the indictment which included that Raweh had forged a passport, impersonation of his brother Sanad and using it in travelling to Iraq as well as misleading authorities at the airports of Sana’a, Cairo and Damascus.
In reply to a question by the court the defendant said he received a sum of 4000 Saudi riyals from a person called Khalil who told him to go to Iraq for jihad and coordination with other persons to receive him at the airport.
Judicial sources revealed to almotamar.net that the defendant Bashir Raweh Nouman was arrested in Syria late of the Hegira month Muharam last year while he was leaving for a training camp of Fatah al-Islam, affiliate of al-Qaeda organisation before he was handed over to Yemen.
February 2, 2008 - Yemeni court convicted on Saturday Bashir Mohammad Noaman of connection to al-Qaeda in Yemen and counterfeiting official documents and a passport in order to travel to fight American forces in Iraq.
In the hearing session headed by the judge Mohasen al-Wan, the court issued a sentence of 5 years in prison against him.
The defendant admitted for the first time that he forged passports and misled authorities in Sana’a, Cairo and Damascus airports.
He further acknowledged that he received 4000 Saudi rials from the so-called Khalil who coordinated to receive him in an airport in Syria.
The Syrian authorities had extradited Noaman, 28, to Yemen after it arrested him in February 2007 while he was trying to go to Lebanon to join a training camp of al-Qaeda there.
