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August 12, 2009
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
This item is available on the Militant Islam Monitor website, at http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/4057