Yemeni interior minister: two Egyptians involved in kidnapping, killing foreign tourists
Yemen, Politics, 2/6/1999

Yemeni Minister of Interior General Hussein Arab stated that two Egyptian suspects were involved in events that took place recently in Yemen aimed at kidnapping and killing a group of tourists.

He also said that one of the suspects, Osama Mostafa Kamel, was killed. He was the son of Abu Hamza al-Masri, whose extradition Yemen demanded from Britain to be tried on the charges leveled at him, the minister in a statement to Egypt's al-Ahram newspaper.

Yemen's minister of interior today said that 125 terrorists were arrested in Yemen, including ten from Britain, who were planning to implement criminal action against United States and British interests in Aden.

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