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Yemen to try 26 Al-Qaeda suspects, 800 followers of rebel preacher SANAA, Saturday (AFP) Yemen will soon put on trial 826 extremists, including 26 suspected members of the Al-Qaeda terror network, a judicial source said Friday. The trials, to start after the current Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, will involve "26 suspected Al-Qaeda members, including two extradited by Saudi Arabia and one by Kuwait late last year," the source told AFP, requesting anonymity. The suspects "have links with those accused of bombing the (French supertanker) Limburg (in October 2002) and with other terrorist attacks which took place in Yemen over the past two years," the source said. The 800 other suspects, who will be tried "in batches," are members of the Faithful Youth organization which was headed by a Yemeni rebel preacher killed by the army last September, according to the same source. The Yemeni government announced last September that the army had killed Sheikh Hussein Badr Eddin al-Huthi, nearly three months after he started a rebellion in the country's mountainous northwest, near the border with Saudi Arabia, triggering clashes which left more than 400 people dead. Yemen, which has cracked down on suspected Al-Qaeda members at the behest of the United States, has already tried and convicted two groups of militants in the cases of the 2000 bombing of the US navy destroyer Cole in Aden port which killed 17 American sailors and the bombing of the Limburg two years later off its southeastern coast. The appeals court will deliver verdicts in the Limburg case on February 5 and in the Cole case on February 26. |
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