Yemen Sticks with “Mossad Blew the US Embassy” Meme
update 2: Yemen uncovered a network consisting of 40 Mossad spies using Islam to reach their goals….: Yemen Observer: The network was comprised of 40 people from different Arab nationalities spying for Mossad, the Israeli international intelligence said sources from National and Political Security Units. The members of the espionage network entered Yemen on the premise of conducting business, tourism and even for preaching in mosques. Saleh said that the suspected spies form a terrorism cell that uses also Islam to reach their targets.Members were arrested individually and found to be in possession of detailed maps for sensitive security sites, intelligence telecommunication units and advanced tracking devices.
The six Islamic Jihad members arrested for threatening western embassies after the US embassy attack have ties to Israeli intell, Saleh claims. showing the depth of his committment to finding the guilty parties for sure. Well at least we now know that Emad Ali Saeed al-Rwoni is “Abu al-Gaith al-Miqdad al-Yamani” and another cell member is named Bassam Abdullah Fadhel al-Haidari.
Update: The evidence is letters, I know how accurate correspondence introduced into trial in Yemen can be…
DPA: SANAA: Six militants from the Islamic Jihad organisation arrested by Yemeni police had tried to approach an Israeli intelligence agency for help to carry out terrorist attacks in the Arab state, a security source said yesterday.
The source’s comments come one day after Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said Yemeni police had dismantled a terrorist cell five days ago that was linked to Israeli intelligence services.
The unnamed source told the official Saba news agency that police had seized “written communications between the cell’s second-in-command Bassam Abdullah al-Haidari, and an Israeli intelligence agency, in which he asked for support to carry out terrorist acts inside Yemen.”
The source said the cell was dismantled in September after its alleged leader, Emad Ali al-Rawni, alias Abu al-Ghaith al-Yamani, issued two statements claiming responsibility for the car bombing outside the US embassy on September 17, which killed 18 people.
The source did not clarify whether the discrepancy in dates, or if the two cells were the same.
Abu al-Ghaith, who signed the statements as the leader of the Islamic Jihad Organisation in Yemen, threatened more attacks against Arab and Western embassies in Sanaa, including those of Britain and Saudi Arabia. – DPA
Almotamar.net,Saba - Investigations with the six-member terrorist cell of “Islamic Jihad” arrested late in September have disclosed an alleged link to Israeli intelligence, a security source said on Tuesday.
The investigations and the computer seized with the cell have revealed of correspondence between the cell’s deputy leader named Bassam Abdullah Fadhel al-Haidari and an intelligence body in Israel, which has been included a support request to implement terrorist acts inside Yemen, according to the source.
Investigations are still underway, the source said, adding that when completion, the case’s file would be sent to justice.
During his meeting with officials and dignitaries in Hadramout governorate, President Ali Abdullah Saleh unearthed last Monday arresting a terrorist cell has links with Israeli intelligence, despite raising a banner for Islam.
The cell included six members led by Emad Ali Saeed al-Rwoni, known as “Abu al-Gaith al-Miqdad al-Yamani”. It has sent several threatening letters of targeting Arab and foreign embassies in Yemen such as embassies of Britain Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
The cell has been arrested after a terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy on Wednesday September 17, when a twin car bomb has rocked the US embassy in Sana’a killing 16 people including seven of troops guarding the embassy and four civilians and six attackers. The civilians included two Yemenis, an Indian women and a US citizen from a Yemeni origin.
Related, Iranian spies: MEMRI
In Yemen, Trial Of Three Accused Of Forming Iran Spy Network Begins
The Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa reports that the trial of three Yemenites accused of establishing a network for spying for Iran and of planning to harm vital Yemeni interests will be brought to court for their first day of trial today. Source: Al-Siyassa, Kuwait, October 7, 2008
