www.chinaview.cn 2004-08-29 13:29:47
SANAA, Aug. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- A Yemeni court on Saturday sentenced one militant to death and 14 others to prison terms of three to 10 years on terror charges, according to local reports.
Reports said the one receiving the death penalty was convicted of plotting to kill the American ambassador to the Arab state and killing a Yemeni police officer.
Nine militants received prison terms of three to 10 years for planning attacks against the embassies of the United States, Germany, France, Britain and Cuba.
The rest five, all alleged al-Qaida supporters, were sentenced to 10 years in jail on charges of carrying out the bombing of the French supertanker Limburg.
The five al-Qaida supporters said the Limburg bombing they conducted in 2002 was ordered by Ali al-Harthi, al-Qaida's top Yemen operative who was killed by a missile fired by a CIA drone aircraft later in the same year.
Yemen has arrested hundreds of people suspected of al-Qaida ties after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States in an effort to shed its image as a hotbed for militants.
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