Yemeni Minister of Endowments and Religious Guidance Hamour al-Hitar has formally demanded that the Dutch government ban an inflammatory anti-Quran film. Al-Hitar has discussed the issue with ambassador of the Netherlands Harry Buikema, and called for the exertion and coordination of international efforts to prevent the defamation of religion in order to avoid tense situations.
Lawyers for Islamist cleric Abu Hamza have lodged an appeal against his extradition from Britain to the US. Hamza is accused by United States of being part of a global plot and waging jihad against Western countries, and officials want to try him over the 1998 abduction of 16 Western tourists in Yemen. The Egyptian-born…
Britain intends to extradite jailed Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States to face terrorism charges, the Home Office said. The interior ministry made the announcement on Thursday after Home Secretary Jacqui Smith signed an extradition order. Hamza’s lawyer, Muddassar Arani, said an appeal would be filed because “there are some very serious…
Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh, will ask Madrid to release an Al-Jazeera journalist jailed for seven years for collaborating with Al-Qaeda. A Spanish court imprisoned al-Jazeera reporter Tayssir Alluni in 2005 after being found guilty of acting as a financial courier to Al-Qaeda while in Afghanistan. Alluni, who is a Spanish national of Syrian origin,…
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for an attack last week on a convoy of Belgian tourists in Yemen that left two Belgians, and two Yemenis dead. While security officials refused to comment on the claim and no such claims were made on al-Qaeda websites, Yemeni newspaper al-Wasat reported that responsibility was claimed in a telephone call to…
