Leader of the Islamic Aden army in Yemen surrenders

Yemen's minister of the Interior Rashad Muhammad al-Oleimi said that leader of a presumed terrorist group whose death announced on June 5th is still alive and he had surrendered to the authorities.

In a statement to "September 26th," paper mouthpiece of the ministry of defense and close to the presidency issued yesterday, he said that the leader of "the Islamic Aden Army" Khaled Abdul Nabi who led the armed confrontations with the government's forces in Hatat mountains in Abyan province to the south of Yemen "was not killed in these confrontations."

The Yemeni minister explained that the reason behind the announcement made by the official sources then, about killing him, was because a card was found in the pocket of one of the killed persons in the name of Khaled Abdul Nabi and that one of his relatives identified him and said "this is Khaled's body."

He added "we found out that the body which we though his belongs to a Saudi citizen, and was handed to the Saudi side." He added that recently Abdul Nabi surrendered to the security forces and will be investigated and questioned in the framework of the law. In a related matter, a high ranking Yemeni official asked to be anonymous said that a group of Islamists who were arrested in August admitted of planning for launching attacks against the American and British embassies in Sanaa.

He added that the police found ammunition and booklets to manufacture mortars with the group which includes 20 suspects from Yemen and Saudi Arabia.