Yemen sentences al Qaeda bomb-maker to death

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 0/18/10 | Mohammed Ghobari and Mohammed Mokhashaf

[NormsRevenge]

SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen on Monday sentenced to death an al Qaeda bomb-maker who told the judge the "demise" of the country was in the hands of militants whose southern hideouts are being targeted by air raids.

Saleh al-Shawish was arrested in January and prosecutors said he specialized in explosives while training with jihadist militants in Afghanistan.

Yemen is trying to quell a resurgent branch of al Qaeda in the country, which has increased its attacks on both Western and government targets in the Arabian Peninsula state, a neighbor of top oil exporter Saudi Arabia.

Shawish confessed in court to involvement in al Qaeda, the judge said in his sentencing, including attacks on oil sites, military bases and checkpoints. His indictment said his expertise was building bombs and preparing suicide bombers.

"He belonged to al Qaeda and caused the death of a number of innocent people and damaged Yemen's ... economic interests," the judge said. "The punishment for this is the death penalty."

Shawish, who is from the eastern province of Hadramout, rejected an appeal and told the judge: "God willing, your demise is in our hands, starting in Abyan."

Security forces are trying to root out Islamist militants hiding in the mountains of the Mudiyah district of Abyan.

Six suspected al Qaeda members have been killed in three days of clashes and air raids, a local official said on Monday.

[NormsRevenge]

Al-Qaeda bombmaker Saleh al-Shawesh (L) who has confessed to involvement in seven deadly attacks claimed by Al-Qaeda on oil and military installations in eastern Yemen, is escorted by Yemeni security forces into a court in Sanaa which sentenced him to death, amid a mounting battle between the government forces and the local branch of the jihadist network. (AFP/Gamal Noman)

[theDentist]

What is Yemen’s preferred method of sending these swine to their demise?

[Seruzawa]

Yeah, Yemen. Al-Qaeda was pretty funny when they were targeting the Great Satan. Not so funny now that they are attacking you. But anyone who understands fanaticism would have predicted this. NO ONE is “pure” enough for a fanatic.

[rahbert]

7.62x39 IIRC

[ETL]

Too bad we can't implement this policy for these two traitorous scumbags/friends of Obama...

"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' "

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html

[Westbrook]

> 7.62x39 IIRC

Is that against a wall before a formal firing squad, or laying prone in the street with a lone hooded executioneer firing full auto, the way Hamas does it?

[CarWashMan]

How much do you want to bet he “escapes”?

[SpinnerWebb]

Or gets time off for good behavior, or because he has terminal cancer, or some such...

[oneamericanvoice]

Too bad it isn’t a bag soaked in pig’s blood placed in a bomb proof box with an explosive inside and then KABOOM...down to Mohammed.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****> 7.62x39 IIRC

Is that against a wall before a formal firing squad,****

I thought the preferred method was to put them in prison till execution date, then let them escape just before.

[reagan_fanatic]

These knuckle-dragging Neanderthals are always harrumphing about how much they love death. I say we accommodate them.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NormsRevenge.

an al Qaeda bomb-maker who told the judge the "demise" of the country was in the hands of militants whose southern hideouts are being targeted by air raids... he specialized in explosives while training with jihadist militants in Afghanistan