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* Yahya Majali was a junior Al Qaeda activist in Yemen. He was killed in a shootout in Sanna, Yemen’s capital, in 08/2002.
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* Ali Ahmad Muhammad Jarallah was the murderer of the Assistant Secretary General of the Yemeni Socialist Party Jarallah Omar, on 12/28/2002. He was arrested on the spot, sentenced to death and executed by a fire squad on 11/28/2005. Ali Ahmad Jarallah was reportedly registered in the mid-1990s at the private, ultra-conservative al-Iman University, run by Abdul Majeed al-Zindani. Ali Ahmad Jarallah served in the Yemeni Army and fought against the socialist leadership of former South Yemen during the 1994 civil war.
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Two days after Jarallah Omar’s assassination, on 12/30/2002, Abed Abd al-Razzaq Kamel, 30, killed three American health professionals working for a Southern Baptist mission hospital in Jibal, South Yemen, 125 miles south of the capital, Sanaa. The victims were Hospital administrator William E. Koehn, business manager Kathleen A. Gariety, and physician Martha C. Myers were killed and pharmacist Donald W. Caswell was injured in the early morning attack.  Yemen claimed that Abed Abd al-Razzaq Kamel plotted his attack with Ali Ahmad Jarallah. Abed Abd al-Razzaq Kamel claimed he belonged to a group called Islamic Jihad.  

 

On 05/15/2003, Abed Abd al-Razzaq Kamel was sentenced to death and executed on 02/27/2006.

 

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On 12/12/2005 two Yemeni citizens Hizam Ali Hassan Al-Mass, 17, and Khaled Saleh Al-Halila, 18, were charged in court for an attempt to assassinate the US Ambassador to Yemen Edmund J. Hull by a hand grenade. They were arrested following the Abyan-Operation in 03/2004.

 

On 03/06/2006 the Yemeni state security court sentenced Hizam Al-Mass and Khaled Al-Halila to five years in prison. Both were released from jail on 01/14/2008.
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Yemen’s military intelligence chief Brig. Ali Sayani survived an assassination attempt in Sanaa, the Central Customs office and close to the Italian embassy. on Monday 04/25/2005.  Security sources said the attacker tossed a hand grenade inside Ali Sayani’s car, but his bodyguards managed to throw it back before it detonated. A bystander was killed in the explosion and few others were wounded.

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* Related topics –
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2007 -THE 4 MARIB  ESCAPEES  
12/1999 -THE YEMENI  MILLENNIUM  PLOT  
PROFILE -AL-QADASI & AL-ZAIDI
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