Yemen Arrests 30 al-Qaeda Suspects Planned Attacks On Saudi Arabia
August 28, 2008 by national
Filed under World Report
Yemeni authorities have arrested 30 suspected members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network believed to have been plotting attacks in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, official sources said Thursday.
The 30 men, all Yemenis, were captured in the south-eastern province of Hadhramout, where police forces dismantled an al-Qaeda cell on August 12, a police source was quoted as saying by the 26 September weekly.
‘They were planning to join al-Qaeda members in Saudi Arabia to carry out joint attacks,’ the unnamed source told the paper.
The arrests were made after police gained information about the suspects from documents and a computer found in the al-Qaeda house raided by police in Tarim town in Hadhramout on August 12.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said police discovered plots by al-Qaeda to strike targets inside the country and in Saudi Arabia.
He said documents and blueprints for the plans were found after police forces raided the Tarim hideout. Police killed five suspected members of al-Qaeda in the raid.
Among the suspects killed was Hamza al-Quaiti, a suspected mastermind of several car bomb attacks that hit Yemen in recent years. Two other suspects were injured in the firefight and arrested by police. Two police officers were killed in the clash.
Last week, Yemen extradited to Saudi Arabia eight Saudis wanted by Saudi security authorities on security-related charges.
President Saleh will be now be an active partner in the war on terror again. Until all the bad press which his corupt regime has been getting goes away. And he has to set the stage for the next american president so as to keep american dollars flowing into his pocket while his people starve, and he will then continue with his support of Al-Qaeda. Hes played this game now for years.Its our hope the Families of the murdered Cole sailors that maybe one day an America president will stop this sick game.