That's interesting jerseygirl. Thanks much for passing that info along. Hope you are doing well.
Yemen Jails Six Al-Qaeda Men for Plotting Attacks
Khaled Al-Mahdi, Arab News
SANAA, 9 August 2005 — A Yemeni court yesterday sentenced six men, including an Iraqi and two Syrians, to jail terms ranging from two to four years after convicting them of planning to attack Western embassies.
The six men were part of an eight-member Al-Qaeda cell called the “Tawheed Brigades”. Two other defendants were acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
The eight were charged with planning to attack the British and Italian embassies and a French cultural center in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
The court sentenced the alleged ringleader Anwar Baian Al-Jilani to four years in prison. Two Yemeni accomplices, Khaled Muhammad Al-Butani and Abdul Rahman Basurra were given 38 and 40 months in jail, respectively. A third Yemeni Umran Al-Faqih was sentenced to two-year suspended prison term.
Two Syrian brothers, Muhammad and Ahmad Abdul Wahab Khiti, received 38-month jail term each. The verdict, read out by the court’s presiding Judge Najeeb Al-Qadri, said that “the evidence supported charges (against the six convicts) and showed organized preparations to carry out bombings targeting foreign diplomatic missions.”
Qadri found two Yemenis Majid Mizan and Salah Muhammad Othman innocent, saying the prosecution failed to provide sufficient evidence against them.
Prosecutors have submitted to the court documents seized by police showing that the group had also planned to attack military bases in Saudi Arabia, as well as American civilians, Western companies, restaurants and schools in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Among the documents were maps and alleged attack plans and orders for explosives and rocket-propelled grenades that would have been allegedly supplied by Saudi comrades. When the trial began on March 21, only three of the defendants pleaded guilty for planning to attack on the British Embassy, but they and the other five suspects denied involvement in a conspiracy to blow up the Italian embassy or the French center.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=68194&d=9&m=8&y=2005
Hanging in here! Adopted a 26 1/2 pound cat from a local shelter- pure black- a true sweetie. He has cheered my dad up enormously....Lots of purring and kitty loves belly rubs....
A local cat adoption center had just passed through-picking out the cats they thought were adoptable and taking them to their facility. They left my kitty (6 yrs old) behind. The only other person interested in my kitty was a kid who wanted to make him even more obese, cause it was "cool".
We are working closely with the vet to help kitty lose weight. It has to be done very gradually. Apparently, if an obese cat stops eating even for 2 days, it can severely damage the liver (all that fat pouring into the organ) and kill the feline. So we are monitoring him very carefully.\
Sorry for the lengthy OT! I am just so thrilled to have this sweetie and to see my Dad loving him as well...gives dad big purrs and rubs when dad comes home from dialysis....