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Deported Yemeni Terrorists Welcomed Home By Thousands At Saan'a Airport
August 12, 2009
Deported Yemeni Terrorists Welcomed Home By Thousands At Saan'a Airport
Deported Yemeni Terrorists Welcomed Home By Thousands At Saan'a Airport
August 12, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The two Yemenis, Sheikh Mohammed al-Moayad and Mohammed Zaid were convicted in a 2005 court proceeding in Brooklyn on terror charges involving a trip to Germany [an FBI sting operation] where the two were expecting to receive money from a deep-pocket terror funder.
Upon appeal, the two plead guilty to the substantially reduced charge of raising money for the Palestinian terror group Hamas [the original charges included support of al-Qaeda], freed upon time already served and deported to Yemen where they and their three attorneys were greeted by thousands of Islamists at the airport.
Yemen became for a brief time, a focal point in the war on terror due to the al-Qaeda inspired 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the port of Aiden. Al-Qaeda is believed to have received substantial assistance in the Cole attack from the Sudanese government.
Yemen, a Sunni Islamic government, designated as a U.S. ally, has been embroiled for years in an internecine battle with a Shiite rebel movement in the South.
The neighboring Saudi kingdom views the Shiite incursion with concern.
http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=yemen8.12.09%2Ehtm
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