Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Lawyers for the seven British Muslims in Yemen jailed for plotting terrorist attacks claim that they have been denied access to their clients. Seven days after their 9 August conviction, the prisoners have not been allowed to contact the outside world, while two of them who received the sentences...
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 1999
Yemen’s Interior Minister Hussein Mohammed Arab said in remarks published Thursday that security forces had arrested 16 people on charges of planning sabotage acts in Yemen.
"A group of 16 people linked to Abu Hamza Al-Masri were arrested in Sanaa. They were planning sabotage acts," the official 26...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
A London-based Islamist militant has threatened reprisals against Yemen after eight Muslim Britons and two Algerians were found guilty of plotting to bomb Aden and sentenced to jail terms ranging from three to seven years.
Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2012
Four people were killed and 43 were wounded a crowded market in the capital of Yemen, when a gunman threw a hand grenade and then opened fire after a Yemeni court upheld the death sentence on the leader of an Islamic militant group.
Date of source: Thursday, April 29, 1999 to Wednesday, May 5, 1999
In another blow to Islamist militants, 13 members of the clandestine Vanguards of Conquest, an offshoot of the Jihad group, were handed over to Egypt during the past few weeks by South Africa, Yemen, Kuwait and Syria.
Date of source: Thursday, March 25, 1999 to Wednesday, March 31, 1999
Friday, British authorities released three Islamist militants arrested four days earlier, including the leader of Ansar Al-Sharia (Advocates of Islamic Law) and Yasser Serri who was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian military court in 1994 for plotting an attack against the then Prime...
Date of source: Monday, March 22, 1999
People are surprised about the British Government’s attitude in dealing with Muslim extremists. Following its flexible policy with them where they were allowed to run their activities from British territories, British authorities recently arrested some known Islamic extremists under the new...
Date of source: Monday, March 22, 1999
An interview made by Al-Wasat with Mustafa Kamel, also known by Abu Hamzah Al-Masry, prior to his detention by the British authorities in London.
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 10, 1999
Interior Minister Habib El-Adli said, "Terrorism is now denounced by people who had previously sympathized with underground groups, believing them to be Islamists preaching religion."
Date of source: Saturday, August 8, 1998
The killing of three nuns in Yemen from the order established by Mother Teresa raised a lot of questions about the reason for the presence of nuns in a country that contains no Christians in the first place.