Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 3/15/1999
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of March 15, 1999
- British police free Abu Hamzeh from terrorism in Yemen charges
The British police on Friday released Sheikh Abu Hamzeh, leader of Ansar al-Sharia ( al-Sharia partisans) group and two of his men that were arrested earlier on Monday according to the terrorism-fighting law. Yemen, Politics, 3/20/1999 - Yemen, Japan concerned over the situation in Iraq Yemen-Japan, Politics, 3/17/1999
- Abu Hamzeh arrested in London
The British police on Monday arrested the extremist Abu Hamzeh al-Masri following months of close follow-up of his activities in the British capital and after it was proved that he sent armed British citizens to Yemen to carry out terrorist acts there. Yemen-UK, Politics, 3/16/1999