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– 3 AL QAEDA SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN YEMEN
Yemeni security forces arrested three suspects, including a Kuwaiti national, in a crackdown on militant groups linked to terror acts, official sources said on Friday 01/30/2009. The interior ministry said in a brief statement that the three suspects, aged between 20 and 25, were captured in the north-central province of Marib.
The two-line statement said one of the suspects was an Arab man, without giving further details. A defense ministry online newspaper said the non-Yemeni suspect was a Kuwaiti national.
The arrests have been made amid a wide-scale manhunt for suspects in various terrorism and security cases, the 26 September website said quoting well-informed security sources.
Security forces launched this week a countrywide manhunt for fugitives believed to be linked to Al Qaeda after the group’s local leader, Nasser al-Wehaishi
made his first appearance on a video posted on jihadist websites. Nasser al-Wehaishi, alias Abu-Bashir, who escaped Sanaa Jail On 02/03/2006 (see – Sanaa Escape), threatened in the video to carry out attacks against US and Western interests in the Arabian Peninsula. Nasser al-Wehaishi was also implicated in the Marib Suicide Attack.
After The 9/11. Yemen allied itself with the USA-led ‘war on terror’ and pursued suspected members of Al Qaeda, putting scores of them on trial.
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