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NEW YORK (AP) - Federal prosecutors are challenging efforts by the Yemeni government to intervene in the courtroom defense of an outspoken sheik accused of funneling millions of dollars to al-Qaida. Sheik Ali Hassan al-Moayad has been jailed in Brooklyn since last year over the objections of Yemen, where he was a leading member of an Islamic-oriented political party. With a trial nearing, officials in Yemen recently hired a prominent Yemeni lawyer and sent him to New York to monitor the case. The lawyer, Khaled al-Ansi, was cleared to enter the United States. But when he showed up in court...

Yemeni troops killed on Friday anti-U.S. cleric Hussein al-Houthi and scores of his followers, ending over two months of clashes that have left more than 200 rebels and troops dead, a government official said. "This is the end of the rebellion," an official told Reuters The government accused Houthi, leader of the "Believing Youth" group and a Zaidi Shi'ite sect, of establishing unlicensed religious centers and of forming an armed group which has staged violent protests against the United States and Israel. It should be recalled that al-Houthi was a parliamentarian between 1993- 1997. He was the son of one...

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...

A large number of Islamist students have been arrested in Yemen in the wake of this week's fatal shootings of three American missionaries and the assassination of a socialist political leader, a security official said Thursday. "Many students at Al-Iman University in Sanaa suspected of extremist activities and having links with the assassins of the three American missionaries and the number two of the Yemeni Socialist Party Jarallah Omar were arrested Thursday," said the official, who requested he not be named. He would not disclose exactly how many students had been arrested, but said among them were "persons whose names...

Yemeni captured in Pakistan saw himself as next Bin Laden By Andrew Gumbel 16 September 2002 The United States has never quite dared believe it could decapitate al-Qa'ida and neutralise the men who masterminded the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. But as new evidence emerges about an extraordinary series of police raids and bloody shoot-out at a high-class residential compound in Karachi last week, it seems its wish might just have been granted. New information from both US and Pakistani sources over the weekend suggested that Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, the 30-year-old Yemeni considered to...

KARACHI, September 15 (PNS): Sitting in a black sedan, four agents of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) watched intently as a posse of Pakistan military intelligence and police officials climbed a narrow staircase to enter a second floor apartment of a four-apartment building in Karachi's posh residential district of Defence Society early morning on September 11. The raiding party had specific information from two Yemenis arrested in another raid a few hours earlier that a "bunch" of al-Qaeda suspects was hiding in the Defence Society apartment. As the uniformed and plain clothes intelligence operatives and policemen barged...