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 Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:29 am Post subject: Yemeni forces kill 2 Al-Qaeda fugitives in Sanaa shootout |
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Yemeni forces kill 2 Al-Qaeda fugitives in Sanaa shootout
Yemeni forces on Sunday killed two Al-Qaeda fugitives who had been sentenced to death for an attack on the French oil tanker Limburg in 2002, officials said. Fawwaz al-Rabeie, who was convicted of plotting the Limburg attack, "was killed in a shootout with security forces in a suburb of Sanaa, where he was hiding in a house," the official told AFP.
"Security forces also killed Mohammad Dailami," another suspected Al-Qaeda operative who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2004 for his role in a number of plots including an attempted attack in 2002 against a US Hunt helicopter, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"Dailami was hiding in the same house as Rabeie," the official added. Forces also arrested two aides to Rabeie and were questioning them. Dailami and Rabeie were two of 23 inmates, including 13 Al-Qaeda militants, who escaped their jail in the capital Sanaa last February.
Early Last month, four bombers and a security guard were also killed in when Yemeni security forces foiled twin suicide bombings against oil facilities. A security source in Sanaa told AFP that Rabeie was "the main instigator of this double attack." Citing "information obtained during the interrogation of four terrorists arrested on September 16," the source added. He said: "Rabeie was planning other attacks in Sanaa which were to target the airport and the Movenpick Hotel in the capital." A security official added that six bomb-wired cars had been discovered in the past two weeks and authorities were searching for a seventh.
Authorities said on September 20 they arrested a suspected Al-Qaeda member armed with explosives which he planned to use in attacks in the Yemeni capital, as the country went to the polls in presidential and municipal elections.
February's jailbreak raised questions about Yemen's security measures among its Western allies and was an embarrassment for Sanaa, which has cracked down on militants in the country and joined the US-led "war on terrorism." Officials say 11 of the fugitives have since surrendered to authorities or were captured, four - including Rabeie and Dailami - have been killed and eight militants remain on the run.
The attack on the Limburg was virtually a repeat of the bombing of the US Navy destroyer Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden two years earlier in which 17 American sailors were killed. - AFP, Reuters
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=75831 |
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