Yemen: Accusing the Egyptian intelligence of kidnapping an official in the ruling party
Yemen-Egypt, Politics, 11/1/2002

Brother of the businessman and official in the ruling party in Yemen, Abdul Salaam Ali Abdul Rahman, has accused the Egyptian intelligence of kidnapping him, stressing that he disappeared in Egypt since September 20 and that the Egyptian ambassador in Sanaa, Khaled al-Koumi, is personally involved in the process of "dragging" his brother to Egypt.

Abdul Wahab Ali Abdul Rahman, the brother of Abdul Salaam Ali Abdul Rahman, the Yemeni businessman and member of the central committee of the ruling People's General Congress in Yemen, said that Egypt's ambassador in Sanaa Khaled al-Koumi "dragged his brother into a trap installed by the Egyptian intelligence ."

On Tuesday, the Yemeni official news agency stressed that information exist with the Yemeni government confirm that he is held by the Egyptian authorities. Abdul Wahab Ali Abdul Rahman, who is also a businessman whose activities are concentrating on biding contracts, said that his brother is held by the Egyptian intelligence which might aim behind his arrest to search for information about Afghani Arabs in Yemen.

A source close to the Yemeni government said that the man had helped the Yemeni authorities during the past years to evacuate the Afghani Arabs outside Yemen, and those "included hundreds of Egyptians." According to the Yemeni News Agency the Yemeni cabinet assigned in its weekly meeting held on Tuesday by the foreign minister Abu baker al-Qurabi and the minister of the interior Rashad al-Oleimi to follow up the disappearance of that Yemeni citizen.

The Yemeni news agency also said that the Yemeni ministers of the interior and the foreign minister indicated that their two counterparts in Egypt stressed to them that the Yemeni citizen Abdul Salaam Ali Abdul Rahman left Cairo on board of a private plane to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, four days after his arrival in Cairo. Abdul Wahab (28) year old) told reporters that his elder brother Abdul Salaam ( 34 year old) is married and a father of four children and that he had traveled from Cairo to Sanaa on September 20 at the invitation of the Arab contractors company in his being a partner in the company's branch in Yemen. He added that he had met with the Egyptian ambassador and the Egyptian consul in Sanaa in search for his brother for several times and the Egyptian officials only confined to conveying claims in the name of the Egyptian authorities that his brother Abdul Salaam had left Cairo just four days after his arrival to it " heading for Baku."

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