British security delegation visits Yemen

A Yemeni official said on Tuesday that a British security delegation arrived in Yemen in a mission to collect more information about persons suspected to belong to extremist organizations.

The official said that the task of the delegation is basically concentrated on collecting additional information about the life of Abu Hamzeh al-Masri who carries the British nationality and about Yasser al-Serr who is thought to have lived for a while in London and is currently in the post of the director of the Islamic Observatory ( Marsad) in London.

The Yemeni official added that the mission of the three- member delegation, more expectedly belong to the British police, falls in the course of security cooperation between the two countries. He indicated that the two sides are trying to know whether the two men, besides others have links to al-Qaida organization.