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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...

An Islamic extremist was sentenced to death Sept. 14 for assassinating a politician and coordinating the shootings of three Southern Baptist hospital workers, according to the Associated Press. Ali al-Jarallah was sentenced to death for planning the attack on a hospital in Jibla, Yemen, that resulted in the deaths of three Southern Baptist medical workers. His sentence includes the assassination of Yemeni Socialist Party deputy Secretary-General Jarallah Omar, who was shot days prior to the attack on the hospital. Al-Jarallah is the second person this year to be sentenced to death for the hospital attack. In July, Abed Abdul Razak...

SAN`A, Yemen: A Yemeni court on Sunday convicted a Muslim extremist of plotting the assassination of a politician and three American missionaries and sentenced him to death. Ali al-Jarallah was found guilty of planning the December 2002 assassination of Yemeni Socialist Party deputy secretary-general Jarallah Omar, as well as the murder two days later of three American missionaries. He was also convicted of creating a terror cell aiming to assassinate local officials and foreigners, as well as buying weapons and explosives. Six accomplices in the Omar murder were given terms between three to 10 years. Seven other alleged militants were...