Posted on 08/08/2005 11:11:58 PM PDT by AliVeritas
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.”
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Wow. Two to four years. Now that is throwing the book at them. NOT!!!!!
Heck, Al Qaeda does such long-term planning they can probably keep the names of these vermin plugged into the next big attack.
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