Armies of Liberation

I have plans on integrating this 22 page list with my 15 page timeline of attacks. This list contains excerpts from news articles that list the names of al Qaeda captured or convicted, along with the original link, (not hotlinked). Handy yes? Its a safe assumption that the majority of these have been released again.

June 12, 2009
Arrested/ Convicted Yemeni al Qaeda

Feb 18, 2002 Twelve persons are still in custody in the governorate of Ibb, including the brother-in-law of Usama bin Laden, Dr. Mohammed Ghaleb. He is married to the sister of bin Laden’s Yemeni wife. The sources said other two Egyptians are detained in Ibb. They are Ahmed Ezat and Mohammed Omar. Abdu Saleh al-Matari is still in prison because his daughter was married to a Yemeni killed in Afghanistan. http://www.yementimes.com/02/iss08/front.htm XXX

May 20, 2002 The man who threw grenades at the US Embassy in March has been convicted by a Sana’a court to 10 years in jail. Sameer Yahia Awadh, 26, exploded the grenades on March 15. http://www.yementimes.com/02/iss21/front.htm XXX

Sept 29, 2002 The three captured al-Qaeda suspects are Abid al-Thawr, Seyf Mohamed, and Abu Habbabi. Among the killed was Yahya Saleh Al-Mujalli (Abu Seyf). http://www.yementimes.com/02/iss39/front.htm XXX

Feb 2, 2003 Yemeni authorities arrested last week two people from al-Eman university affiliated to Sheikh Abdulmajeed Al-Zindani of the Islah Party. Reliable sources said that the intelligence arrested Wednesday a student at al-Eman university named Abduljabar al-Marwani. He was taken from his house at Sa’wan district North East of Sanaa. Two days earlier, the authorities arrested Dr. Ahmad al-Daghshi, a professor at Sana’a and al-Eman universities. The two persons were detained as their names were mentioned during interrogations with the killers of Jarallah Omar and the US doctors. http://www.yementimes.com/03/iss4/front.htm XXX

Feb 3, 2003 A breakthrough has been made in the military siege to Waset City Hospital in Marib where Mohammed Ali Ali Azaidi received treatment. Azaidi has been suspected of having links to al-Qaeda organization. The son of the Naji Ali Azaidi, a staff general and a brother of Azaidi along with his little brother have been taken as hostages in return for allowing Mohammed Azaidi to receive treatment abroad and then hand himself over to the authorities… Azaidi came back from Afghanistan five years ago. He stayed in Afghanistan for about two years. He’s accused of kidnapping a German commercial attaché’ in 2001. http://www.yementimes.com/03/iss9/ln.htm XXX

March 3, 2003 Yemeni sources disclosed Wednesday that Abdulkareem Batheeb, al-Qaeda suspect, is the mastermind of the terrorist attack on the French tanker Limburg last October. Investigations with five suspects indicated that Batheeb received the finances for the attack from Yemeni citizens living in Saudi Arabia. http://www.yementimes.com/03/iss9/ln.htm XXX

April 14, 2003 Among those recently captured and who were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks against US interests in February 2002, are Forqan Attajeli, Forqan Asheshani, and Fares al-Barraq. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=631&p=front&a=1 XXX

June 2, 2003 Confrontations took place between an al-Qaeda suspect and the police forces last Wednesday in one of the traditional markets of the Marib City located about 16 km east of Sana’a. The clashes started when a group of police forces tried to arrest a man named Ali Mubarak Firas, one of the Arab Afghans who returned from Afghanistan and who belongs to one of the prominent tribes of Ma’rib…Ali Mubarak fled the scene leaving his car in the hands of the forces. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=638&p=local&a=3 XXX

June 25 2003 Military units have been reinforced with tanks, helicopters, and led by military experts in mountainous Huttab area, 120 km north east of Aden governorate to track down and arrest or kill members of Islamic Jihad group, formerly known as the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army. An informed source accompanies the army at Huttab told Yemen Times that around 80 AAIA affiliates have been led by a former security officer, called Mohammed Abduh Annabi and his brother Khaled. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=645&p=front&a=1 XXX

September 9, 2003 Yemeni security forces arrested the Saudi citizen Bandar Abdulhakeem al-Ghamidi, a government official source said Tuesday night. Al-Ghamidi is one of the prime 19 suspects of the al-Riyadh terrorist bombings. The official source said that preparations are underway to hand him over to the Saudi authorities as Yemen and Saudi Arabia already signed a security pact on extradition of criminals and terrorists. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=667&p=front&a=2 Ghamaidi extradited to Saudi http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=668&p=front&a=3 XXX

Oct.26 2003 Yemeni authorities released last Friday a Kuwaiti cleric who was suspected for having links to al-Qaeda. Jaber al-Jalahimah… was set free and his passport was returned to him and that he could stay or leave Yemen…He was reported to be an extremist cleric and was already detained by police in Kuwait several times in the past. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=680&p=local&a=9 XXX

Oct 30 2003 Lebanon charged a Yemeni national on Thursday with carrying out “terrorist acts” and masterminding a string of bomb attacks against American fast food outlets, judicial sources said. Moammar Awwama, suspected of ties to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network, would be tried by a military court on charges that also include membership of “terrorist cells”, attempted murder and attempts to blow up U.S.-style restaurants. Awwama, also known as Ibn al-Shahid, was arrested earlier this month by Palestinian Fatah gunmen in the southern Ain al-Hilweh camp. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=682&p=front&a=3 XXX

March 08, 2004 Yemeni security forces arrested two senior Al-Qaeda members last Wednesday during a hunt for Islamic militants in a mountainous area of the Abyan province, security officials said. Abdul Rauf Nassib, a top Yemeni Al-Qaeda leader, and Egyptian Sayyed Imam Sharif, an influential member of the militant organization, were both captured in the same operation. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=718&p=local&a=1 XXX

March 18 2004 Yemen has arrested a suspected militant wanted over the 2000 bomb attack that killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole in the port of Aden, an official Web site said on Tuesday. Security forces arrested Ali Mohamed Omar Shorbajy in the mountainous Abyan region in south Yemen on Monday night. http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=721&p=front&a=2 XXX

April 4, 2004 The Yemeni Political Security Organization (PSO) arrested on Monday in Ibb Governorate a Yemeni citizen suspected of being a member of al-Qaeda, a local source said. The source said that the Intelligence Officers arrested Najeeb Saleh al-Muraisi on charges of having links to al-Qaeda after his arrival from Thailand. Al-Muraisi was one of the young militants who fought in Bosnia during mid 1990s. He came back at the beginning of last week from Thailand where he had been teaching the Holy Quran in schools for the last three years. He previously worked in the Philippines for two years. It was reported that he decided to come back to Yemen after five years to invest the money he gained during his time abroad. http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=725&p=front&a=3 XXX

June 3, 2004 Limburg suspects on trial:
1-Omar Saeed Hasan Jarallah, alias Ibn Hafidh, 26
2- Fawzi Yahia al-Hababi, alias Abu al-Shaheed, 26, jobless
3-Mohammed Saeed Ali al-Amari, alias Abu Gharib al-Taeezi, 25, jobless
4-Fawzi Gharib alias Abu Musab al-Taeezi, 24, student
5-Yasser Ali Salem (still at large)
6- Fawaz Yahia Hasan al-Rabee
7-Abu Bakr Yahia Hasan al-Rabee, 26
8-Hizam Saleh Ali, alias Mujali
9- Ibraheem Mohammed Abduljabar, alias Abu Zaid, 25
10-Mohammed Abdullah Ahamd al-Dailami, 26
11-Saleem Mohammed Ali al-Dailami, 25, teacher
12- Abdulghani Ali Hussein, alias Jaber al-Sanani, jobless
13-Kasem Yahia Mahdi, alias Abu Hurairah al-Sanani
14- Khaled Ahmad al-Jalob, alias Abu Muslim
15- Aref Saleh Ali Mujali
http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=743&p=front&a=1 XXX

Sept. 6, 2004 Al-Samawi presented two alibi witnesses who confirmed that the second suspect Jamal al-Badwi was not present in Aden before, during and after the USS Cole terrorist attack, and that he was in Sana’a during that time. The two witnesses Amar Rashad and Omar Abdulrahman said that al-Badwi was in Sana’a at that time. http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=770&p=front&a=1 XXX

Oct 5, 2004 The pair, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Jamal al-Badawi, were both sentenced to death for orchestrating, plotting, preparing and involvement in the bombing of the US warship. Judge Najib al-Qaderi sentenced Fahd al-Qiss’e to 10 years in jail for filming the bombing. The court said that al-Qiss’e had traveled to Afghanistan in 1997 to train at an al-Qaeda terrorist camp. The fourth convict, Mamoon Amswah, received an eight-year prison term for delivering money used in preparing and executing the attack and playing a close role in assisting al-Badawi. Ali Mohamed Murakab and Murad al-Sirouri, were both sentenced to five years in prison for forging identification documents for Hasan al-Khameri under the name of Abdullah Ahmad Khaled al-Misawa, one of the suicide bombers. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=778&p=front&a=1 XXX

Feb 18, 2005 The Sana’a Counter-Terrorism court started Monday, Feb. 14 the trial of 11 al-Qaeda suspects accused of planning to form an armed gang to carry out “criminal acts” in Yemen and abroad as well as trying to join militants battling U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ten of the 11 defendants were present at the hearing. The list includes: Mohammed Saleh al-Kazmi, 35, Abdullah Yahya al-Wadaee, 27, Mansur Nasser al-Bihani, 31, Shafeeq Ahmed Omar, 26, Ibrahim Mohammed al-Mukri, 43, Mohammed Ahmed Hatem, 30 — all of who were born in Saudi Arabia — and Saddam Hussein Ismail, 24, Fares Mohammed Ali, 27, Abdul Raoof Abdullah Naseeb, 30 and Ahmed Mohammed al-Kardai, 27, and Ismail al-Husami. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=817&p=front&a=2 XXX

August 18, 2005 An appeals court in Sanaa found 11 al-Qaeda suspects innocent of charges of attempts to carry out attacks in Yemen and abroad for lack of evidence, judicial sources said. The judge ordered the release of all but one of them, Saddam Hussein al-Husami, who still had to serve five months in prison for a previous two-year sentence for forgery. http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060221-063418-9337r XXX

August 2005: A Yemeni court convicted six men of forming an armed gang with links to Al-Qa’ida, planning attacks in Sanaa on the British and Italian embassies and French cultural center, forging passports, and possessing arms and explosives. Iraqi Anwar al-Jilani, 20, was convicted of leading the group and was sentenced to four years imprisonment. Yemeni Abderrahman Basira, 25, Syrian Mohammad Abdelwahhab Bakri, 24, and his brother Ahmad, 22, were sentenced to 40 months in prison, Yemeni Khaled al-Batati, 23, received a 38-month sentence and Yemeni Omran al-Faqih, 31, was sentenced to two years. Two defendants, Yemenis Salah Othman, 33, and Majed Mizan, 21, were acquitted. http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=1712881&ct=2505221 XXX

Nov. 17 2005 Iraqi Attorney General Chathanfar Hmod Al-Jasim presented Interpol with an extradition request to bring Saddam Hussein’s nephew from Yemen back to Baghdad to standtrial for “committing acts of terror,” the US military said in a statement on Thursday. Omar Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan Al-Tikriti, the son of Saddam Hussein’s half brother, has been sought by Iraqi officials for his leading role and financial support to “terrorist organizations”,the military said in a statement. (Xinhuanet) XXX

Feb 02, 2006 (Zarchawi cell 17)… on trial: No. 13, Musaed Mohamed Al-Barbari, The court also allowed defense team head Abdulaziz Al-Samawi to defend his clients and have a copy of the indictment against Ali Al-Harithi and Mohamed Sa’eed Al-Qabsh. Mohamed Al-Qahtani, Mosa’ad Mohamed Ahmed Al-Barbari, a finalist engineering student at Halab College, said the accusation was fabricated and demanded he be transferred to Central Prison. Saudi suspect Mohamed Saeed Fare Al-Qirshi, Muhsin Mubarak, Ali Al-Kurdi, Cell leader Naji Al-Harithi said all accusations were fabricated by political security… Amar Abdullah Mohamed Fadil (Abu Asim) XXX

Feb 5, 2006; (23 escape) The Mutamarnet website mentioned that the fugitives, particularly Jamal al-Badawqi, the second one accused in the case of Cole, were 9 of those tried in the case of blasting the French oil tanker Limburg offshore Mukalla in 2002. They are: Mohammed Ali Saad, Arif Saleh Mujali, Omar Saeed Jarallah, Qassem Yahya al-Raimi, and Mohammed Ahmed al-Dailami. The list of runaways also includes four persons convicted on charge of their membership of al-Qaeda organization and formation of an armed gang, namely: Ibrahim Mohammed al-Maqri, Shafiq Ahmed Omar, Abdullah Yahya al-Wadie and Mansour Nasser al-Bayhani. Two others are from al-Tawheed battalions that were headed by Anwar al-Jelani. They are: Abdulrahman Ahmed Basurra, and Khalid Mohammed al-Batati. The other convicted one is called Abdullah Ahmed al-Raymi, handed over to Yemen by the sate of Qatar and he had been sentenced for four years imprisonment. http://newsyemen.net/en/view_news.asp?sub_no=3_2006_02_06_5808
List escapees: The names are: Yaser Naser Al-Homikani, Mohammed Sa’eed Al-Omda, Fawzi Mohammed Al-Wajeh, Zakria Hasen Al-Baihani, Abudlrahman Ahmed Basora, Abdullah Ahmed Al-Remi, Fawaz Yahya Al-Rabe ai, Hizam Saleh Mugli, Gamal Mohammed Al-Badwi, Zakria Hasen Al-Baihani, Abdulrahman Ahmed Basurah, Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Hoidi, Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Mukri, Aref Saleh Mugli, Shafik Ahmed Zaid, Gaber Al-Bana’a, Hamza Salem Al-Kuaiti, Omer Sa’eed Gar Allah, Abdullah Yahya Al-Wa’ adi, Khaled Mohammed Al-Batati, Kasem Yahya Al-Remi, Mohammed Ahmed Al-Remi, Mansour Naser Al-Baihani. http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=918&p=front&a=1 XXX

Feb 20, 2006 The Specialized Penal Court (SPC) last Tuesday ordered the release of Hadi Saleh Al-Waeli suspected of selling arms, ammunition and explosives to terrorists who bombed the USS Cole Destroyer at Aden Port in 2000. http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=922&p=local&a=5 XXX

Feb 21, 2006 Yemeni authorities have released 11 Muslim fundamentalists, including the suspected leader of an al-Qaida cell, who were detained in east Yemen. Daily al-Shura, mouthpiece of the opposition Popular Forces Union Party, Tuesday quoted well-informed sources as saying Abdel Rauf Nassib, who is accused of leading an al-Qaida cell whose members were convicted of planning terrorist activities and forging official documents, was among the released prisoners. Nassib, a former Yemeni intelligence officer, was tried and acquitted in the case of the bombing of the USS Cole in the port of Aden in October 2000 in which 17 U.S. servicemen were killed. http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060221-063418-9337r XXX

March 3, 2006 Two of 17 Al-Qaeda suspects on trial for planning attacks in Yemen admitted Wednesday to having trained foreign fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan and that their war was with Americans not Yemenis. “Our war is with the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, not in Yemen,” Yemeni suspect Ali Abdullah Osyan, 28, told the judge during an appearance in a Sanaa court….”We used them for jihad (holy fight) in Iraq,” said another Yemeni, Ammar Abdullah Fadel, 28, sporting a long thick beard. “I trained young fighters how to use them to resist Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan.” http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=6387 XXX

March 6, 2006 A Yemeni state security court yesterday sentenced two young men to five years in prison after convicting them of attacking the former US ambassador to the country in 2004.Hizam Ali Hassan Al-Mass, 17, and Khaled Saleh Al-Halila, 18, were found guilty of trying to assassinate the US Ambassador to Yemen Edmund J. Hull by a hand grenade. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=78792&d=6&m=3&y=2006 XXX

April 18 2006 A Yemeni court sentenced 13 Islamist militants to prison terms of up to seven years Wednesday for planning attacks against American and other Western targets. Group leader Ali Sufyan al-Amari was sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in founding the group with the intent of kidnapping foreigners and bombing Western interests in Yemen…Only one of the 14 defendants, Faisal Abdul-Aziz, was acquitted because he had turned himself in and cooperated with investigators. All the defendants were present in the court. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-yemen-militant-trial,1,2833440.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true XXX

April 20, 2006 April 17, the SSSPC wrapped up the trial of Mohammad Hamdi Al-Ahdal, the suspected second-in-command of Al-Qaeda’s terrorist network in Yemen, and set April 26 for pronouncing the verdict. Al-Ahdal, 35, is charged with being part of an armed gang formed to attack foreign interests and damage Yemen’s security and stability. During the trial, public prosecutor Khalid Al-Mawri called for the maximum penalty for Al-Ahdal, who prosecutors say received up to $50,000 from Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to finance the network’s operations in Yemen and aid detained group members’ families. Prosecutors alleged that he received approximately $150,000 from a fellow Al-Qaeda member identified as Saudi national Abu-Omar Al-Usaimi. http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=939&p=front&a=4 XXX

August 31, 2006 Sources in Sana’a said Sheikh Hadi Dalqam handed over the two brothers, Arif and Hizam Majaly, to security authorities at the end of last week. The two were among 23 Al-Qaeda members who escaped from Political Security Prison in Sana’a in February. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=977&p=front&a=5 XXX

October 2, 2006 Arrested in Iraq: From Sept. 8-14, Iraq’s Central Criminal Court issued judgments upon 22 prison detainees, including a Yemeni named Abdullah Hussein Ahmed Saleh, convicted of infiltrating and illegal passing of borders. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=986&p=local&a=2 XXX

October 5, 2006 Authorities reveal the arrest of four AQ planning suicide attacks: Abdullah Mohammed Mohsin al-Rajawi, member of the group, hid the car in the Arahab district, some 20 km to the north of Sana’a, where a forged number plate was put on it before the plot was discovered by security agents. Investigations of those now in custody have also revealed a call for the continuation of such terrorist works, as mentioned in a will written by one of the cell members who was meant to commit suicide in a future attack. He was identified as Ibrahim Abdullah al-Sakhi, using Abu Dojana al-Musaiki as a nickname. http://www.yobserver.net/article-11036.php XXX

Nov 4, 2006 The Specialized Court of Appeal ruled that 19 prisoner, of whom five are Saudis, are innocent of forming an armed gang, convicting six of charges of forging official documents. Ali Naji, Jamal al-Maqrami, and Mohammed al-Qirshi were sentenced to three years in prisons each, with charges of forming an armed gang targeting the Americans in Yemen. Abdullah Naji, Abdullah Ahmed al-Shajarah, Ammar Abdullah Fadel, Muhsen Mabkhout, Mohammed Falah al-Qahtani, Mohammed Manqoush were convicted of forging official documents. They were sentenced to two to three years in prison. (Saudis) : Majid al-Zahrani, Mohammed al-Qarashi, Saad al-Bloushi, Mohammed al-Qahtrani and Muhsin Baleed) http://www.almotamar.net/en/1422.htm XXX

Nov 6, 2006 A Sana’a appeals court acquitted 19 alleged Al-Qaeda members Saturday on charges of conducting terrorist acts targeting Americans in Yemen. However, Judge Sa’eed Al-Qatta did convict six of the suspects of forging official documents, but stated that the court found no evidence that the 19 had formed an armed gang. Ali Hussein (also known as Abu Ali Al-Harethi), Ammar Fadhel, Abdullah Al-Shejarah, Mohammed Hadhban and Saudi nationals Mohammed Al-Qahtani and Muhsen Mubarak were convicted of forging official documents. Hussein and Fadhel were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, beginning from their arrest date, while the remaining four were sentenced to time served and subsequently released. The 13 other suspects acquitted were Jamal Saif Al-Maqrami, Abdullah Hassan Al-Obadi, Ali Mohammed Al-Kurdi, Majed Al-Zahrani, Mohammed Al-Qirshi, Bandar Al-Hasani, Ahmed Hizam Al-Zaheri, Sa’d Abdul-Ghani Al-Baloushi, Musaed Al-Barbari, Mohammed Sa’eed Al-Kabsh, Hassan Al-Baili, Jalal Al-Kadas and Aqil Jar Allah. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=996&p=front&a=4 XXX

November 8, 2006 The first instant socialized court has convicted the 14 suspects of forming an armed gang to target Americans, ministry of interior, bolitical security, counterterrorism department, and Taj Sheba hotel through exblosive belts. The suspects are
1- Ali Mohammed Sufian al- Ammari
2- Al-Zubair Abdul-Rahman al-Mekhlafi
3- Mohammed Abdul-Aziz Futaini
4-Ibrahim Mabkhout al-Wesabi
5- Hamid Mohammed Radman al-Wesabi
6- Hassan Ali Saad al-Hada
7- Badr Ahmed al-Huseini
8-Jamal Abudul-Nasser al-Qamadi
9-Mohammed Ali Ali Haidar
10- Sami Mohammed Qaed al-Shuabi
11-Adnan Abdul-Karim Wajeeh al-Deen
12-Ammar Ahmed Saleh al-Muradi
13-Faisal al-Arefi
14-Khalid Mohammed al-Aziz
http://www.almotamar.net/en/1497.htm XXX

Nov 8, 2006 The key to the raids was Anwar Al Awlaki (identified in the media as ‘Abu Atiq’) who was arrested six weeks before the October 17 swoop. http://www.cageprisoners.com/prisoners.php?id=2127 XXX

Nov 8, 2006 — Syrian authorities have handed over a member of the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, a terrorist organization, who was arrested while attempting to cross into Iraq via the Syrian border, media sources reported Wednesday. Wade’e Hamid Al-Dawlah and three other Aden-Abyan Islamic Army members traveled to Iraq in February 2006 to fight U.S. troops there. But while there, Al-Dawlah differed with his accomplices about using themselves as bombs to kill Shi’ite Muslims in Iraq, refusing to blow himself up to kill Shi’ites. http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=997&p=front&a=3 XXX

Nov 21, 2006 Last April, the court convicted the suspects of targeting foreign military figures, including Americans, in Yemen. The court sentenced Ali Mohammed Sufian al-Ammari to 7 years in prison; Al-Zubair Abdul-Rahman al-Mekhlafi to 5 years; Abdul-Aziz al-Futaini 3 years; Ibrahim al-Wesabi 4 years; Hasan Sa’d al-Hada 5 years; Badr Rashed al-Wesabi 3 years; Khalid Futaini one and a half year; Jamal Abdul-Nasser al-Qamadi 5 years; Mohammed Ali Hair 6 years; Ammar Ahmed al-Muradi 6 years; Sami Mohammed al-Shabi 5 years and Adnan Wajeeh al-Deen one and a half year. http://www.almotamar.net/en/1560.htm XXX

Dec 16, 2006 Criminal security and national security forces were able, according to an official statement, to capture some of the most wanted al-Qaeda elements, including Abdullah al-Dhabibi and Jamil Ghurab. http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.369622476&par=0 XXX

Dec 30, 2006 Military vehicle surrounded a house looking for someone called Mahmoud al-Rudaini and raided the house to arrest Mahmoud and shot dead his brother Fairs, 22 years. The family of Faris said it did never know that Mahmoud was wanted and that he was religiously abiding. It said that Mahmoud, 27 did not leave Sana’a at all, but said that he had links to Jihad groups in the same zone. Musaik zone is known for its links to Jihad groups that help Mujahideen belong to al-Qaeda to get to Iraq, like Afghanistan. http://www.newsyemen.net/en/view_news.asp?sub_no=3_2006_12_27_6497 XXX

Jan 08, 2007 Five of recently released Guantanamo prisoners are still in custody, said a human right activist….HOOD could ascertain the identities of the six men, who are Esam Hamid Al-Jaefi, Ali Hussain Al-Tais, Mohammed Ahmed Al-Asadi, Tawfiq Al-Murwai and Muhassen Al-Asskari. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1014&p=local&a=1 XXX

Jan 16 2007 — The security forces killed one of the political security jail escapees in a shootout on Sunday. Yasser Al-Humaiqani was one of the top suspects wanted by the government for his involvement in terrorist plots, a Yemeni Interior Ministry official source said. In October 2006, the government troops killed Fawaz Al-Rabe’i and Mohamed Al-Tailami (Dailimi), two Al-Qaeda fugitives who were involved in terrorist operations in the country. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1017&p=local&a=5 XXX

Jan 30, 2007 Yemeni security forces arrested Sunday two brothers after raiding their house claiming they were looking for their suspected brother of having links to al-Qaeda. The security forces suddenly raided the house and said they were looking for my brother Mohammad. But after they did not found Mohammad they arrested my brothers Kamal and Esam and confiscated a computer, CDs, passport and some documents, said Nabil Rashid al-Houri, the elder son of al-Houri family. http://www.newsyemen.net/en/view_news.asp?sub_no=3_2007_01_29_6528 XXX

March 13 2007 (16 Cell original 23) The Appeals Section at the Penal Court, in its sitting held Saturday and chaired by Judge Saeed al-Qataa, fixed next Saturday for final procedures in the case of 16 defendants on charges of forging official documents and smuggling escapees from the political security prison in Aden as well as possessing weapons and explosives. .. A first instance court had released seven of the accused; some were acquitted from charges and others the court considered the period of their detention as enough for their punishment. The defendants in this case are Omar Masoud Nasser Ali, Abdullah Amin Abdulwali al-Rahbi, Fawaz Abdullah Muhsin Fadhl, Maath Ahmed Abdullah, Ali Ali Yahya Hassan al-Jawri, Saddam Ali Mohammed Abdulrahman, Adel Saleh Ahmed Dharweh, Mohammed Ali Mohammed Abdullah al-Dhiyaie, Ibrahim Ahmed Abdullah al-Sairafi, Abdullah Saleh Salem, Sami Ahmed Maher al-Haifi, Salim Muzahim Mohammed Bajabir, Wadhah Ali Mohammed Qaied al-Jund, Shawqi Ali al-Budani, Mohammed Ali Abdullah Haydar al-Nashiri, Rashid Mohammed Salim al-Abeedi, Ahmed Abdullah Mohammed al-Mareesi, Hani Abdulwariuth al-Ariq, Mutee Muhtir, Yusuf Mohammed Abdulrazzaq, Ahmed Saeed Ali al-Hijri and Ali Ahmed Ali al-Bajili http://www.almotamar.net/en/2157.htm XXX

March 15, 2007 An appeals court upheld the prison sentence of 14 Yemenis, who were convicted of forming an armed gang to carry out terrorist acts in Yemen, including attacks on western interests. The State Security Court of Appeals, chaired by Judge Saeed al-Qat’a, ordered the imprisonment of defendant Ali Mohammed Sufyan al-Ammary for six years. Al-Zubair Abdul Rahman al-Mikhlafi, Mohammed and Khalid Abdul-Aziz Qateeni, Hassan Ali al-Hadda and Jamal Abdeh Nasser al-Qumadi each received four years, starting from the date of arrest. The court also upheld the primary sentence of three years each for: Hamid Mohammed Radman al-Wisabi, Badr al-Husseini, Mohammed Ali Hayder, Ibrahim Mabkhut al-Wasabi, and Ammar Ahmed Saleh al-Muradi. It also endorsed the sentence of two years imprisonment for Adnan Abdul-Karim Wajihuddin and Sami Mohammed Qaid al-Shuaibi. The primary court convicted the men on April 16th, 2006. The accused were arrested on May 9th 2004, in Shumaila market in Sana’a, with explosive belts, weapons, and other explosives in their possession. http://www.yobserver.com/article-11850.php XXX

April 4 2007 The Panel Court in Sana’a sentenced on Tuesday six persons to different terms in prison including two Saudis. The two Saudi brothers, Samil al-Ataibi and Fahd al-Ataibi (released from Gitmo, aka Utaibi) got four years in jail after they have been convicted with having links to al-Qaeda and forging official documents to travel to Iraq to fight occupation forces. The court also sentenced Ali al-Babakri, Eyad al-Sabahi, Jahad al-Amri and Tarq al-Najdi, to two years term over the same charge. The three suspects, Jamal Marzoq, Najib al-Sharabi and Sultan al-Ariqi found not guilty, the court said. News Yemen XXX

April 4, 2007 The State Security Specialized Penal Court convicted seven suspects Tuesday of forging official documents and identity credentials. The court sentenced two Saudi nationals to four years in prison, while Yemeni suspects Ali Hussein Al-Bukari, Ayad Mohammed Sultan, Jihad Abdullah Al-Amri and Tariq Mohammed Al-Najdi each face two years’ imprisonment. http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1039&p=local&a=10 XXX

April 16 2007 The Specialized Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Radwan al-Namir, has decided to release Mousa al-Housam, one of the 36 men accused of terrorist activity, specifically targeting oil installations in Marib and Hadhramawt last year. No reason was given for al-Housam’s release. Group includes abu Bakr al Reibi, Abdullah al-Rajawi, Abdel Rahman al-Moustka, also known as Abu Khattab, Hussein al-Tharhani. http://www.yobserver.com/article-12085.php XXX

May 7, 2007 Two Yemenis convicted of trying to kill a former US ambassador to Sanaa had their jail terms reduced by a special court on Sunday from five years to three after they appealed. Hizam Ali al-Mass, 17, and Khaled Saleh al-Heleila, 18, were found guilty in March last year (Alt spell: Huzam al-Mas and Khalid al-Hulailah) XXX

May 16 2007; A statement issued in London by a radical organization reveal that Yemeni authorities have extradited the daughter of Adil Awad, head of the military wing of the Egyptian [Islamic] Jihad Group, and her Islamist husband, Isam Muhammad Khalil, also known as Ahmad Bakr (who was sentenced in absentia in the “Returnees From Albania” case in 1999) to Egypt.

August 12, 2007 Four killed- An official source at the ministry said investigations revealed the men’s names: Ali bin Ali Nasser Doha, Naji Ali Saleh Jardan, Abdul-Aziz Sa’id Jardan, Amer Hassan Saleh Herridan. Or: An official source from the Ministry of Interior stated Friday that terrorists killed in a security raid Wednesday were planning further attacks. The source identified the suspects as Ali bin Ali Naser Doha, Naji Ali Jaradan, Abdul-Aziz Saeed Jaradan, Amer Hassan Saleh and Amar Obada al-Waeli XXX

August 12, 2007 Suicide bomber terrorist who carried out the operation (bombing in Marib) was Abdeh Mohammed Saeed Ahmed Ruhaiqa from Makal village, Mizhir district of the governorate of Raima. He was recruited by the terrorist Hamza Ali Saleh al-Dhayani who trained him on driving a taxi and took him after that to Wadi Abida area in Marib where the terrorist cell was present and that planned and prepared implementation of the operation. The cell is composed of terrorists Nasser Abdulkarim al-Wahishi, Qassim Yahya Mahdi al-Raimi, Ali Bin Ali Nasser Douha, Hamza Salem Omar bin Salem al-Qaeeti and Imad Abadeh Masoud al-Jabari al-Waeli who prepared and supervised directly the attack, in addition to a Saudi terrorist Naif Mohammed al-Qahtani. Terrorists Naji Ali Saleh Jardan and Ali bin Ali Nasser Douha from the governorate of Marib have provided shelter and protection for the cell members that implemented the operation and are at the same time the main accused persons of killing the director of criminal investigations in Marib.

August 14, 2007 Yemeni authorities claim to have foiled a terrorist attack in the port city of Aden, south of Sanaa, hours before its execution… The head of the cell was said to be a Yemeni with the battle name ‘ al-Lahji ‘, whose arrest two weeks ago led to the discovery of other cell members. http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1205680091 XXX

Aug 16, 2007 The Yemeni security apparatus arrested Saturday an Egyptian suspected to have links to al-Qaeda and the terror attack on Spanish tourists convoy in Marib last July. Raynews website quoted some security sources as saying that that the Egyptian Mohammad Yaqot was arrested inside a hotel in the capital Sana’a as he was suspected of attacking Spaniards in Marib killing eight Spanish and two Yemenis. Raynews said that security sources told it that Yaqot illegally entered Yemen months ago. http://www.newsyemen.net/en/view_news.asp?sub_no=3_2007_08_19_6820 XXX

August 17, 2007 NewsYemen was informed that some extremists, may be belong to Hitat group in Abyan, have closed a school which was a summer center for girls in Khanfar district of the province and kicked them out. According to the sources security men arrested the extremist persons Fahmi Ali Mohammed Ali and Wadhah Rashad Hayder who had stormed Al-Haseen Summer Centre for Girls and cause a state of panic among the girls participating in the centre in addition to stealing equipment of the centrer… The security at once began interrogation of the two persons who are thought to be affiliated to an extremist religious group which refuses the idea of opening summer centres for girls. http://www.newsyemen.net/en/view_news.asp?sub_no=3_2007_08_16_6813 XXX

Sept 11, 2007 Arrested in Lebanon: Mirza said that two days ago a Yemeni citizen identified as Nasser Mohammed Yahya Shiba, 24, was arrested in the Minyeh region north of the camp and testified that he and three other militants had fled with al-Absi. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=22629&sectionid=351020203 (Iran NP) XXX

Nov 7, 2007 (36/oil facilities) Six of the main defendants were tried in absentia, although two of them — Jaber al-Banna and Mohammed al-Omdah — had recently turned themselves in, while another, Hamza al-Qaeiti, was killed in a confrontation with the police. Fugitives Nasser al-Wehaishi and Kassem al-Raimi and Ibrahim al-Huwaidi, three of the most wanted militants in the impoverished Arabian peninsula country, each received a 15-year jail term. http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=071107103307.dfovdjla&cat=null XXX

Nov 7, 2007 The Specialised Penal court in Yemen condemned Wednesday 32 al-Qaeda members defendants in the case of attempting to ballast of the natural gas two installations in Safer, Marib and Dhabba in Hadramout… 15 years imprisonment of the three still at large defendants Nasser Abdulkarim al-Wahshi, Ibrahim Mohammed Huwaidi and Qassem Yahya al-Raimi. The court sentenced to 12 years imprisonment the wanted defendant Hamza Salem al-Qaeeti. A ten-tear imprisonment sentence issued against two still at large defendants Jabr Saleh al-Banaa and Mohammed Saeed Al-Umdah…. The Penal court also issued its sentences of imprisonment against defendants Abubakr Yahya al-Rabee 8 years, Bandar Mohammed al-Akwaa 6 years, and five years imprisonment for each of Aminudin Ali al-Wurfi, Imad Ahmed Shas, and Ibrahim Ahmed al-Sakhi. The court issued it sentence of 4 four year in prison against defendants Abdulmajeed Abdullah al-Arri and Nabil Yahya al-Ashnouri. http://www.almotamar.net/en/3674.htm
Nov 7, 2007 The judge at the Primary Penal Court (re)…oil facilities in Marib and Hadramout provinces had been released but he had no ideas about the release. At the hearing of saying judgment and while calling on the persons to make sure they were present, a defendant asked permission for the absence of Fahd al-Hawani, one of the convicted persons saying he was on way to the court. http://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/view_snews.asp?sub_no=401_2007_11_07_59302 XXX

Dec 3, 2007 Yemeni security services have managed to apprehend a dangerous member of Al-Qaida. Ali Saleh Amiofa was arrested for the murder of a security officer one year ago and will be brought to justice, according to September.Net. http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10013350.html XXX

Dec 4, 2007 Specialised Criminal Court condemned Sunday defendants Saleh Hassan Jraidan and Aidha Mohammed al-Qahtani on charges of hiding escapee convicted persons accused of being affiliated to al-Qaeda organisation in Yemen. The convicted persons escaped from the Political Security Prison and they are Nasser al-Wahishi, Hamza al-Qaeeti and Qassem al-Raimi. The verdict issued in the court session on Sunday chaired by Judge Ridwan al-Nimr stipulated imprisonment for one year of the defendants with suspension for the remaining period of the sentence. http://www.almotamar.net/en/3848.htm XXX

Dec. 17 2007 Security forces have arrested last few days two suspected members of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, the military-run 26sep.net reported on Monday. AFP Police also found explosive vests at the homes of the men, the source said. The defense ministry named the men as Ahmed Humran and Abdul Athim al-Hitar. http://www.sabanews.net/en/news143559.htm XXX

Jan 30, 2008 Arrested in Syria and tried in Yemen: 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…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. http://almotamar.net/en/4160.htm XXX

Feb 24, 2008 Jaber Al-Banna, (Gaber Elbaneh) a Yemeni-American who is among the FBI’s most wanted terrorism suspects, showed up in a Yemeni court Saturday and then walked free, surprising the attendees, an eyewitness said. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1132&p=front&a=1 XXX

March 1, 2008 The appeal court acquitted a Swedish citizen, Abdo Osman, of charges of weapons and explosives trafficking from Yemen to Somalia….According to the prosecution, Osman was controlled by a Mr. Qarqaz from the Islamic Courts. He met Yemeni weapons dealer Abdullah Awad al-Masri and requested a quotation for 7 Surface-to-air (SAM) missiles, several T7 Pica M sniper-rifles, numerous Kalashnikovs and ammunition…Another Somali called Aiob who came to Yemen to smuggle the weapons back to Somalia was also acquitted…The prosecution accused the second suspect, al-Masri, of conspiring with Osman in weapon trafficking and hiding escaped fugitives Fawaz al-Rabi’i, Hamza al-Aqati, and Qasim al-Raimi. Al-Masri was acquitted of the first charge but found guilty of sheltering the fugitives and received a three year prison sentence. Yemen Observer XXX

March 2, 2008 (Eight foreign weapons smugglers) Two men, Abdi Othman Soli, 28, a Danish citizen of Somali origin, and Abdullah Awadh Al-Masri, 37, a Yemeni national, were found not guilty this week of smuggling weapons to Somalia in 2006. However, the court gave Al-Masri a three-year prison sentence for other charges such as working with and providing shelter for Al-Qaeda operatives and illegal weapons trading. The three Australians are Abdullah Ayub, 19, Mohammed Ayub, 21, and Marek Samulski, 35. The Ayub brothers are sons of jihadist Abdul Rahim Ayub, an alleged member of a Sydney-based terrorist cell who was arrested last year in Australia…another of the arrested men, Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Sinhi (sometimes known as Abu Dujana Al-Misiki). {The eight: Danish Layth Sorans (Kenneth Sorensen, Abu Zakaria), British Rasheed Abdulhaq Lascar, Yemeni Abdullah Awad Al-Misri, and Australian Mark (Marek) Samliski 35 and Somali Abdu Othman Suli will stand trial before the Penal Court over weapons smuggling to Somalia. Australians Abdullah Ayub 19, Mohammed Ayub 21} http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1134&p=local&a=3 XXX

March 25, 2008 Khalid Abdul-Nabi , leader of the so-called Aden-Abyan Armey has accused Yemen’s security of targeting him .He along with his escorts were subjected Monday to an ambush which left one of his escort wounded in Joar city. In a statement to Alsahwa.net, he said that 5 policemen riding a military vehicle shot fire on him, considering the incident an attempt by the authorities to assassinate him. His escort, Najib Hafsa , was wounded and transferred to an a hospital in Aden city. http://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/view_snews.asp?sub_no=401_2008_03_25_62315 XXX

April 19, 2008 Yemeni security forces have arrested a member of the Egyptian militant Jihad group believed to have connections to terrorists behind a series of recent attacks against US targets in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, a news report said on Saturday. An anti-terrorism unit captured the Egyptian man, identified as Muhammad Yaqout, in a sting operation in Sana’a last week, the RayNews website said, quoting a police source. The unnamed source said Yaqout was a leading Jihad member and that he was linked to two mortar attacks that targeted the US embassy in Sana’a on March 18 and a residential compound housing US and Western citizens on April 6. http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1400796.php/Yemen_nabs_Egyptian_suspect_linked_to_attacks_against_US_targets XXX

April 23, 2008 The Political Security Organization has neglected decisions of the Attorney-General to release Abdullah al-Raimi. PSO had arrested al-Raimi by mistake, thinking that he is al-Qaeda’s member as his name is similar to the name of al-Qaeda’s member who had escaped from PSO extreme prison. http://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/view_snews.asp?sub_no=401_2008_04_23_62945 XXX

May 09 2008 Meanwhile, a Yemeni state security court of appeals this week reduced a jail term for a national convicted of trying to go to Iraq for jihad. Bashir Muhammad Nu’man was sentenced last week to five years in prison for using a forged passport to travel to Syria with the intention of joining Al-Qaeda. The appeals court reduced the sentence to two years in prison for Nu’man, who was said to have been arrested in Syria and extradited to Yemen in February 2007, reportedly without offering any explanation…. http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/05/0edf7107-bf7e-45e8-b8ef-a21a16c75f9f.html XXX

May 10, 2008– Security forces have arrested Najib Mohamad Abdu, known also as Hafsa, from inside a hospital in Aden, while he was treated after seriously injured by government forces. Hafsa, a bodyguard of Aden-Abyan Army leader Khalid Abdul-Nabi, was taken into a jail in Aden governorate as a first step to transferr him to the central prison of Abyan. Alsahwa.net

May 22 2008: Yemen named Hamza Ali Saleh al-Dhayany as a suspect in Tuesday’s mortar attack on the US Embassy in Sana’a. Al-Dhayany was named in July 2007 as the driving instructor for a suicide car bomber who murdered eight Spanish tourists in Marib. The cell is composed of terrorists Nasser Abdulkarim al-Wahishi, Qassim Yahya Mahdi al-Raimi, Ali Bin Ali Nasser Douha, Hamza Salem Omar bin Salem al-Qaeeti and Imad Abadeh Masoud al-Jabari al-Waeli who prepared and supervised directly the attack, in addition to a Saudi terrorist Naif Mohammed al-Qahtani. Terrorists Naji Ali Saleh Jardan and Ali bin Ali Nasser Douha from the governorate of Marib have provided shelter and protection for the cell members that implemented the operation and are at the same time the main accused persons of killing the director of criminal investigations in Marib. http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1074&p=front&a=2 XXX

June 7 2008- The source was quoted as saying that the arrested suspect is a high-profile al-Qaeda militant and has provided important information during interrogations. An informed source revealed to the Yemen Observer that the arrested person was an Indonesian citizen. http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10014377.html XXX

June 17, 2008 Yemeni police have broken up an al-Qaeda cell that has been plotting terrorist attacks against foreign interests and government facilities in the capital Sana’a, an online news outlet reported Tuesday. Officers from the National Security Agency raided the cell and arrested all its members late on Monday, the RayNews web site said, without giving numbers of those arrested. It said the group’s leader, Riydh al-Salehi, was among the arrested suspects. The report describes al-Salehi as a ‘leading member of al-Qaeda in Yemen. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1411813.php/Yemen_busts_al-Qaeda_cell_plotting_attacks_on_foreign_interests XXX

June 21, 2008 Arrested in India; A joint operation by the Military Intelligence (MI) and the Bangalore city police culminated in the arrest of six Manipuri extremists of the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) on Thursday. Officials from the MI unit at Southern Command Headquarters, Pune, co-coordinated the operation. Those arrested are Ibungo Singh alias Chulamba (29), a self-styled lieutenant who had to discharge the duties of an officer, Sergeant Major Laikhu Ram Jiten Singh alias Dada (30) who was the project officer in charge of collecting money and Joney alias Nanao (26), all of them Manipuri nationals who are wanted in many cases of bomb blasts, extortion and other terror activities. The other three arrested are Megan Chander (29), Vikas Pradhan (24) and a foreign national from Yemen, Almer Mohammed (23). http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Six-extremists-nabbed-in-joint-operation-by-Military-Intelligence-Blore-police/325881/ XXX

June 26, 2008 The authorities in Yemen have arrested 10 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in two different police operations conducted in the capital Sanaa and in the desert area of Hadramawt, in the south of the country. According to a report in London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, among those arrested was one of al-Qaeda in Yemen’s top leaders, Haytham Bin Saad. Bin Saad was detained with four other extremists in Hadramawt on Wednesday, while five others were arrested in the capital. Bin Saad was sent to the prison in Sayun pending his transfer to Sanaa. http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2287860743 XXX

August 3, 2008 “Investigations are on track with Mohsen Al-Akiri and Mohammed Ba Awaidhan who are members of Tarim cell,” quoted Al-Watan newspaper. “They were arrested in Tarim (a city in Hadramout governorate) after they were injured,” reported the newspaper, which revealed details about the plan that Al-Qaeda aimed to carry out in Yemen and Saudi Arabia against oil, tourist and economic constructions. http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1186&p=local&a=4 XXX

Aug 30 2008 Yemeni authorities have arrested a leader of the Islamist Jihad movement in the south of the country after a five-year search, a security official said on Saturday. The arrest came after an exchange of fire between police and supporters of Khaled Abdel Nabi, http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gy8tOjrjF6khocLTREWrf9DtYphQ XXX

September 12, 2008 Arrested in Lebanon: The source was quoted by the independent al-tagheer.net as saying that three Yemeni detainees were accused by Lebanese authorities of belonging to the Fatah al-Islam group and targeting western interests in Lebanon…”Those Yemeni detainees are Nasser al-Shayba and Salim Abdul-Karim accused of belonging to the Fatah al-Islam and Muammar al-Awami who accused of targeting western interests in Lebanon”. http://www.sabanews.net/en/news163907.htm XXX

Sept 27, 2008 YEMENI authorities have arrested the leader of the Islamic Jihad group which had claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on the US embassy that killed 17 people, a state-run website said today. The September 26 site (26sep.net) said group leader Abu al-Ghaith al-Yamani was among six people arrested “for threatening to target foreign embassies” http://www.yemenpost.net/48/LocalNews/20085.htm XXX

Nov 05, 2008 (Arrested in Syria re car bombing in Damaskus by Fatah al Islam) The 12 people shown on state television were mostly Syrians and Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon or Syria. There was one Yemeni national (Nabel Aldhahab) and a woman described as the daughter of Fatah al-Islam’s leader Shaker al-Absi, who is at large http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4A58YW20081107 XXX

Nov 24, 2008 Specialized First Instance Court in Yemen decided entrusting the prosecution with addressing lawyers union to retain a lawyer for defending four persons accused of forming an armed gang for carrying out criminal acts and affiliation to al-Qaeda organisation and postponed their trial to the 24th of next December. At the beginning of the sitting for trial of defendants Tawfiq Saad Ali al-Faqieh , 22, worker in Sana’a , Ali Ahmed al-Zaroud , 23, driver ,Sana’a Nabil Ahmed Ali al-Sarihi35, driver, Amran and Ismael Ali Hizam Ghurab, 23, bookshop owner, Ibb, the prosecution presented the indictment…They have prepared explosives and detonation devices and explosive belts and for that purpose they had distributed tasks among them. http://almotamar.net/en/5592.htm XXX

Jan 25, 2009 Over 300 young Yemeni men affiliated with al-Qaeda traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia for Jihad in 2008, said an alleged al-Qaeda military leader on Wednesday. In a statement published by the local weekly independent newspaper al-Wasat, Abu Osama claims that al-Qaeda in Yemen has become stronger than ever….The al-Qaeda statement played down the importance of the arrest of militant Abdul Rahman Ali Mohammed al-Ghurabi, saying “he is young, and has no important information,” about al-Qaeda in Yemen…On Monday, government forces raided a suspect al-Qaeda hideout in Sana’a, where they killed two suspects ( Salem Mohammed Maqasf, Badr Dawood Saleh)…Security sources added that they have arrested a third suspect, and are currently hunting a fourth, Mosa’aed Ahmed al-Barbari, from al-Jawf; the owner of the house in which the cell was hiding. Preliminary investigations with the arrested suspect Abdul-Rahman al-Ghorabi have revealed important information about the cell. http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10015613.html XXX

Jan 21, 2009 Sentenced in Azerbaijan: Haji Jankayev’s gang of 15 involved the citizens of Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkey and Yemen cooperated with terrorist organizations, including Al-Qaeda and was trained in the camps in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge. The gang members were accused in the terrorist attacks, illegal purchasing and bearing arms, murder of police officer Movlan Alibeyov and other grave crimes. Leader of the gang Arif Hajiyev was sentenced to life, Emil Hajiverdiyev for 10, Hamdam Mohammed Ahmed Salem, Haji Jankayev, Abdulla Abdulkarimov and Shirin Aliyev for 7, Aslan Berkov, Isa Islamov, Karanay Abdulhamidov, Arsen Gaziyev, Jembek Asadullayev, Mustafa Delibashlar, Inan Ahmed, Hayal Seljuk Husnu and Karakash Juma Shikhimam for 5 years of imprisonment. http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=95644 XXX

January 31, 2009 In an interview with Al-Quds Al-Arabi, former bodyguard of Sheikh Osama bin Laden’s – Fawzi Al-Wajeeh – talked about the organization of al-Qaeda in Yemen and Somalia. His full story was covered during the interview, beginning with his enrolment to Al-Qaeda, his escape from prison through a tunnel dug by spoons, and his surrender to the President Ali Salih. http://yemenonline.info/news-1010.html XXX

January 31, 2009 – The security forces in the governorate of Marib arrested two Al-Qaeda suspects, a Kuwaiti national named Yusuf Said Abdel Latif Aldhirbas and another Yemeni named Ali Said Al-Qared. http://www.yemenonline.info/news-1011.html XXX

Feb 17, 2009 – One day after the statement by the Minister of Interior that al-Qaeda no longer exists in Yemen, Mohammed Al-Awfi, a Saudi national who has been an ex-gitmo, turned himself in to Yemeni security authorities, which in turn handed him over to Saudi Arabia. http://www.yemenonline.info/news-1087.html XXX

Feb 19, 2009 One of the most wanted al-Qaeda militants of Saudi Arabia was arrested by Yemeni forces in Taiz province, Interior Ministry said Sunday. “Yemen’s security services have captured Saudi man on a list of 85 wanted militants of Saudi Arabia Abdullah Abdul-Rahman Mohammed al-Harbi who is wanted by Yemen as well over terrorist acts”, said the Ministry. The sources revealed also that a number of suspected al-Qaeda militants, including a leading Yemeni member of al-Qaeda al-Khadhir al-Gadib, had surrendered to Yemeni authorities in Abyan province. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1243&p=local&a=4 XXX

Feb 27, 2009 A Yemeni security court on Tuesday sentenced three members of an alleged Al-Qaeda cell to seven years each in jail on charges of plotting attacks and possessing explosives. The three were convicted of conspiring to attack tourists and government facilities to avenge the killing by security forces of Al-Qaeda field commander Hamza al-Kaithi in August last year. Mohammed al-Saadi, 24, Issam Gheilan, 24, Munir al-Bouni, 23, and Osama al-Saadi, 15, confessed to possessing a rocket launcher, an AK-47 assault rifle, a pistol and ammunition. Saadi’s brother Ossama al-Saadi, 15, was sentenced to two years in jail for resisting arrest and threatening police with a hand grenade. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i2CuRbtwqu4yOzzr5Bx5jU_evqEw XXX

March 25, 2009 National Security arrested on Wednesday Six Al-Qaeda suspects, including Abu Bakr Aldosi at the Al-Dawa, call, Scientific Center, bringing the number of the suspects arrested after two recent suicide attacks against South Korean tourists and investigators to 21 people, Mareb News reported. http://yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=446&MainCat=3 XXX

March 26, 2009 Security authorities released the young Kuwaiti Alderbas Saif Abdul Latif, 19, detained since late last January in the Political Security Prison… after the correction of the legal status, origin and preferred not to engage in any additional details because the case is closed. http://www.alnedaa.net/index.php?action=showNews&id=2442 XXX

April 15, 2009 Three terrorists of a 16-member suspected Al-Qaeda cell, currently on trial on charges related to committing and plotting terrorist attacks in the country, confessed during Monday’s court session to planning to attack banks, steal money and target tourists in Yemen. The accused No. 12 Adnan Khalil Ismail said he met with the first accused Rawi Al-Sayari in Hadramout and a second time in Sana’a. The cell members include 11 Yemenis, four Syrians and a Yemen with Saudi nationality. http://yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=552&MainCat=3 XXX

May 3, 2009 “Now politics have changed. In the past, they [Jihadist fighters] were supported but now they are not,” said Khaled Attia, speaking of his brother Suleiman Mohammed Attia, 34, who went to Afghanistan in 1990. Suleiman and up to 19 other detainees at the PSO prison have been on hunger strike for almost two weeks now in protest of their illegal detention. Suleiman Attia was detained in 2002 for two years and eight months, without trial, at the Political Security Organization (PSO) in Hodeida because he was allegedly an Al-Qaeda affiliate.S uleiman was released upon presidential pardon during Ramadan 2005… “So my brother was back in jail in November 2008,” said Khaled Attia. http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1256&p=front&a=1 XXX

May 4, 2009 Sana’a Primary Specialized Court issued Monday two years and half to three years imprisonment sentences to four persons who are convicted of forming armed gang called Musseik Cell to carry out criminal acts and targeting tourists. The sentence issued in the court’s Monday hearing headed by Judge Redhwan al-Namer convicted Sa’ad al-Faqih, Mua’th al-Zuraid, Nabil al-Sureihi and sentenced them to three years imprisonment while the court sentenced the fourth accused Ali Ghurab two years and half imprisonment. http://www.sabanews.net/en/news182650.htm XXX

May 23, 2009 Arrested in Pakistan: A Pakistani official said the Yemeni suspect, Abu Sufyan al-Yemeni, was a Qaeda paramilitary commander who was on C.I.A. and Pakistani lists of the top 20 Qaeda operatives. He was believed to be a conduit for communications between Qaeda leaders in Pakistan and cells in East Africa, Iran, Yemen and elsewhere. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/world/24intel.html?_r=1&ref=world XXX

May 21, 2009 This came in a statement issued by Ghalib al-Zaidi, a top wanted al-Qaeda leader in Marib, who served a three-year imprisonment in the political security prison in 2003 before he was tried and released. http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10016458.html XXX

Summary: 19 Yemenis released by US to Yemen:
أسماء اليمنيين المفرج عنهم من السجون الأمريكية:
1. وليد محمد شاهر القدسي – غوانتاناموا. تاريخ العودة إبريل 2004م
2. كرامة خميس بن خميسان – غوانتاناموا.سبتمبر 2005م.
3. عصام حميد الجايفي – غوانتاناموا. يونيو 2006م
4. علي حسين التيس – غوانتاناموا. يونيو 2006م
5. محمد أحمد الأسدي – غوانتاناموا. يونيو 2006م
6. صالح محمد الزوبه – غوانتاناموا. يونيو 2006م
7. توفيق صابر محمد – غوانتاناموا. يونيو 2006م
8. هاني عبده مصلح شعلان – غوانتاناموا. يونيو 2006م
9. محسن محمد محسن العسكري – غوانتاناموا.ديسمبر 2006م.
10. علي محسن صالح فقعان – - غوانتاناموا. ديسمبر 2006م.
11. صادق محمد سعيد إسماعيل – غوانتاناموا. ديسمبر 2006م.
12. فواز نعمان حمود المهدي – غوانتاناموا. ديسمبر 2006م.
13. علي محمد ناصر الكازمي – غوانتاناموا.سبتمبر 2007م.
14. صلاح علي عبد الله أحمد السلمي – رجع جثة هامدة وادعت الإدارة الأمريكية انه انتحر في يونيو 2006م. – غوانتاناموا.
15. محمد فرج باشميلة – السجون السرية.نهاية العام 2005م.
16. صلاح ناصر قرو – السجون السرية. نهاية العام 2005م.
17. محمد عبد الله الأسد – السجون السرية. نهاية العام 2005م.
18. خالد المقطري – السجون السرية. بداية العام 2007م.
19. سالم احمد حمدان- غوانتاناموا. 8 يناير 2009

Google Translation: The names of Yemenis released from U.S. prisons:

Walid Muhammad Shahir Shrine – Bay. Return Date Apr 2004
Karama Khamis bin Khamisan – Bay. September 2005.
Issam Hamid Gaivi – Bay. June 2006
Ali Hussein, the goat – the camp. June 2006
Mohamed Ahmed Al Assadi – Bay. June 2006
Saleh Mohammad Zoppe – Bay. June 2006
Sabir Mohamed Tawfik – Bay. June 2006
Hani al-Shaalan, a reformed slave – Bay. June 2006
Mohsen Mohamed Mohsen military – camp. December 2006.
Ali Muhsen Saleh Pemphigoid – - Bay. December 2006.
Sadiq Mohammad Saeed Ismail – Bay. December 2006.
Fawaz Hamoud Mehdi Numan – Bay. December 2006.
Ali Mohamed Nasser say what – the camp. September 2007.
Salah Ali Abdullah Ahmed peaceful – A lifeless body and the U.S. administration claimed that he committed suicide in June 2006. – Bay.
Muhammad Faraj Bashmilah – secret prisons. The end of the year in 2005.
Salah Nasser paper – the secret prisons. The end of the year in 2005.
Mohammed Abdullah Al-Assad – the secret prisons. The end of the year in 2005.
Khaled al-Maqtari – secret prisons. The beginning of the year in 2007.
Salim Ahmed Hamdan – the camp. January 8, 2009
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