President receives phone call from FBI director over al-Moayad's release
The Source: sabanews.net - 10/08/2009
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President Ali Abdullah Saleh received on Monday a phone call from
director of Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Director Robert Mueller
who informed president Saleh that United States responded to
president's efforts to release Sheikh Mohammed al-Moayad and his
assistant Mohammed Zayed.
He appreciated concern of president Saleh toward this case, saying that
this concern was a key reason to set the two men free.For his part,
president Saleh expressed thank-you for the US government and the FBI
for the cooperation and response to his efforts which resulted in
releasing the two Yemenis.Official spokesman for Yemen's embassy in
Washington Mohammed al-Basha announced on Sunday that Sheikh Mohammed
Ali al-Moayad, 60, and his companion Mohammed Zayed, 35, are to arrive
in Yemen on Tuesday.The American judiciary authorities decided last
Friday to release Al-Moayad and Zayed after striking a deal, under
which the two men confess to some charges and the court commute their
sentences to five years since the date of arrest
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