Armies of Liberation

Also known as the Unification Brigades.

The sentence balances out the death sentence on the Houthi rebels quite nicely. (I am being sarcastic of course). Lets see what happens in the future, you can never tell from the sentence what the real level of punishment is going to be…

So this is the Tarim cell of al Qaiti that was found responsible for all the mortar attacks, the suicide car bombing on the Sayoun police station and the murder of the two poor Belgian women who were shot at farly close range in an ambush. Al Qaiti and al Qamish (head of the PSO) had their falling out and started slinging insults after the ambush and mortar attacks but before the Sayoun attack and subsequent raids.

They were charged with a total of 23 attacks. The Syrians were in Yemen for eight years before their arrest. some confessed to receiving funds from Saudi figures Then there’s this June 9: “I demand that the charges against me be dropped — the charges I have never heard of until I was interrogated,” said Hossam al-Amoudi, who was arrested in Syria on returning from Iraq.

Death, Imprisonment sentences to terrorists
Monday, 13-July-2009
Almotamar.net – The Yemeni First Instance Criminal Court on Monday issued death sentences against 6 defendants and imprisonment of 10 others to terms of 8 to 15 years. The convicted persons were from al-Qaeda organisation cell ‘ Tarim cell known as Jund al-Yemen’ condemned of perpetrating terrorist acts , among them the killing of the two Belgian tourists and the driver Ahmed al-Amiri in Hadramout January 2008, attacking & July School near the American embassy in march of the same year, attacking residence complex of foreigners in Sana’a and attacking a number of security checkpoints, military camps and oil and vital installations and exposing security and safety of society to danger.

In the court sitting held under chairmanship of Judge Muhsin Mohammed Alwan the court passed its judgment of death sentence against each of Rawi Ahmed al-Saiari, Haitham Saeed Mubarak, Khalid Muslim Batees, Sultan Ali Sulaiman al-Saiari, Ali Muhsin Saleh al-Akbari and saeed Naïf Saeed Sankad.

The ruling also stipulated imprisonment sentences for 15 years for each of Mohammed Saeed Ahmed Baueidan, Mohammed Attiyah Ahmed al-Wahibi, Syrian , Mahmud Ahmed Mohammed Darwish, Syrian , Mohammed Khalil Ismael al-Shatti al-Shahwani, Syrian and Abdullah Ali Saleh Bawazir, Saudi.

The indictment mentioned participation of the defendants in the period December 2007- November 2008 with an armed cell and terrorist organisation carrying out criminal acts aimed at attacking foreigners in embassies, companies and places of their living quarters and tourists.

The court also sentenced to 12 years imprisonment against 3 of the accused and one of them to 8 years in prison and one of them to 8 years in jail.

A few days ago, the Saudi Interior Ministry denied being notified of the arrest of Alwan, the “major financier” recently captured, just like the Saudis never officially heard about the seven Saudis captured that Yemen announced in the spring. This guy I think may be on the Saudi issued list of 85, I recall there were a lot of al Harbis there. Earth Times

Sana’a, Yemen – An alleged Saudi member of al-Qaeda has surrendered to police in Yemen, the Defence Ministry reported on Thursday – one week after the arrest of a Saudi man described as the senior financier of the terrorist group in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The man, identified as Naif Duhais Yahya al-Harbi, has provided “important information that will lead to the arrest of a number of dangerous members of the organisation,” the ministry said in its online newspaper.
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DUBAI Reuters – Yemen has arrested a man described as al Qaeda’s top financer in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, a security source told Reuters on Sunday, and seven Germans, a Briton and a South Korean have been kidnapped in north Yemen.

Saudi national Hassan Hussein Alwan was seized two days ago in Marib province in eastern Yemen, the security source said.

The most he can get three years like al Ahdel:

The alleged top al-Qaeda financier in Yemen has been arrested, security officials say.

He has been named as Hassan Hussein Bin Alwan, a Saudi Arabian national. Reports say he was detained two days ago in Marib province, east of the capital, Sanaa, and is facing charges of forming an armed group.