Sanaa hands over Cairo Egyptian extremists

Yemen has handed over 6 Egyptians suspected to be extremists, including the former leader of al-Islam group, Sayed Imam al-Sharif,

The director of the Islamic media forum in London, Yasser al-Seri, said that the Yemeni authorities had arrested the six men after two or three months from September 11 attacks, 2001, noting that the handing over was made in February in the context of a security settlement between the two states.

The Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced in Cairo in February reaching a security agreement between the two states.

Worthy mentioning that al-Sharif had left Egypt by the beginning of the 1980s for Afghanistan to take part in the war against the Soviet forces, and then to join the Kuwaiti Red Crescent in Beshawar in Pakistan where he had left to bring together followers of the " Jihad thinking."

Following a row with al-Jihad group al-Sharif left Beshawar to Sudan before he had settled in Yemen.