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Hadramout's Penal Court starts trial of terrorist elements
[The Source: HADHRAMAUT/hadhramaut.info./sabanews.net - 20/10/2010]
The Specialized Criminal Court in Hadramout began on Wednesday a trial of ten elements belonging to Fuh terrorist cell, among them Yemeni and Saudi fugitives from justice.
At the hearing, presided by judge Abdu Awadhi, the prosecution charged the defendants of participating in an armed gang affiliated to al-Qaeda to carry out criminal acts and cause explosions in Yemeni and foreign constructions and disturb security and public order , which resulted in the death of two soldiers. The indictment affirmed that the defendants has prepared to carry out their terrorist acts all the necessary means of weapons, explosives, explosive belts, telephone communications, transport and rental houses.The prosecution read the list of evidences, which included confession of the accused in the records of the evidence collection and prosecution investigations. The prosecution said that the defendants opened fire and hurled a grenade at policemen of law enforcement officers, when they come to arrest them, killing two soldiers, Omar Ahmed al-Jamhi and Najeeb Qaid al-Sharabi and the third one, Mohamed Ibrahim al-Harmali, was seriously injured.When the court asked the accused on the correctness of confessions attributed to each of them, some of them confirmed their confessions while others denied. Accordingly, the court decided to assign the prosecution to declare the fugitive defendants, Saleh Abdul-Khaliq Ali Jabir Yemeni national, and Abdullah Farag Mohamed Mahmoud al-Jowir, a Saudi national. It also decided to inform the victims' relatives to attend the next hearing on the first of November and to enable the prosecution to put forward its evidence. The ten terrorists were arrested in last July by the security services in Hadramout province, east Yemen.The security services had raided a house where elements of an al-Qaeda cell were hiding in Fuh, located to the west of the city of Mukally in Hadramou
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