Hardline Muslim cleric, Ali Ahmed Jarallah, has been executed by firing squad in a Yemen prison after being convicted of the murder three years ago of a top official in the opposition socialist party.(AFP/File/Khaled Fazaa)
Posted on 11/27/2005 2:35:51 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SAN`A, Yemen - A suspected al-Qaida ally was executed by a Yemeni firing squad Sunday after being convicted of killing a prominent politician and plotting a deadly attack on three American missionaries in 2002.
Ali al-Jarallah was blindfolded and shot in the courtyard of the central prison in the capital, San`a, in the presence of judiciary officials, several reporters and the victim's lawyer.
Al-Jarallah was convicted in 2003 of helping plot the attack that killed three missionaries in a Yemeni hospital. He also was convicted of murdering Jarallah Omar, the Yemeni Socialist Party's deputy secretary-general, a few days earlier, and forming a terror cell to buy weapons with the intention of killing other local officials and foreigners.
Yemeni officials have said al-Jarallah may be linked to the al-Qaida terror network headed by Osama bin Laden, who has Yemeni ancestral roots.
Police found bin Laden audiotapes at the home of militant Abed Abdul Razak Kamel, who walked through a security checkpoint on Dec. 30, 2002, with a concealed weapon and opened fire at a hospital staff meeting.
Hospital director William E. Koehn, 60, of Kansas; purchasing agent Kathleen A. Gariety, 53, of Wauwatosa, Wis.; and Dr. Martha C. Myers, 57, of Montgomery, Ala., were killed.
Kamel told a court he coordinated his attack with al-Jarallah. He was sentenced to death but no date has been set for his execution.
A court overturned the verdicts and prison sentences of six men convicted of aiding al-Jarallah in Omar's assassination. Mohammed al-Mikhlafy, the lawyer representing Omar's family, criticized the court's decision.
Yemen has long had a reputation of tolerating lawlessness and Islamic militancy. It has witnessed many attacks on foreign targets, including the 2000 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors.
Hardline Muslim cleric, Ali Ahmed Jarallah, has been executed by firing squad in a Yemen prison after being convicted of the murder three years ago of a top official in the opposition socialist party.(AFP/File/Khaled Fazaa)
Yeah man, Yemen.
Is that a picture of him while he was being shot or a picture of him when he discovered that he was one of the 72 virgins for a guy named Bruce?
"Hey, don't be looking at me!"
ping.
Another one bites the dust! (shoulda given him a nice "shave" with a straight razor)
No "military tribunal" worries for this one.
A bacon wrap would have been nice too.
At least he didn't spend 27 years in prison on death row like Tookie Williams.
Is the squad available on December 13, here in California?
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