Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 1/11/1999
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of January 11, 1999
- Warning issued against executing Yemeni Islamist kidnapper
The Imam of Finsbury Park mosque in London, Sheikh Abu Hamzeh al-Masri, said that Westerners in Yemen will be killed if the leader of the kidnappers of 16 western tourists in Yemen is executed. Yemen, Politics, 1/15/1999 - Al-Mihdar at Abyan court: Yes, I am the leader of the kidnappers
Commander of the group which kidnapped the Western tourists in Abeen, Yemen, Zein al-Abidin al-Mihdar (Abu al-Hassan) admitted before the court on Wednesday that he is the "managing mind" for the kidnapping operation and that he had ordered his men to kill the tourists if the security forces approached the place where the tourists were being held. Yemen, Politics, 1/14/1999 - Trials start for Yemenis accused of kidnapping foreigners
The trials of three Yemenis started on Wednesday in the Yemeni city of Zanjibar. The three men are accused of kidnapping 16 foreigners during December. Yemen, Politics, 1/14/1999 - On the terrorist acts in Yemen
The official for Ansaar al-Sharia (Sharia partisans) Mustafa Kamel, better known as Abu Hamzeh al-Masri, on Tuesday denied having sent a group of British Islamists to carry out terrorist operations in Yemen. Yemen-UK, Politics, 1/13/1999 - Further investigations in Yemen on terrorist acts
The British consul in Aden, David Purse, announced that he met on Sunday with a fourth British citizen who was arrested by the Lebanese authorities over being suspected of carrying out activities described as "terrorist." Yemen-UK, Politics, 1/11/1999