 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| . |  |
. |
Sanaa (AFP) May 11, 2010 Tribal relatives of an arrested arms dealer opened fire on a police convoy transporting him to court in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday, wounding a policeman, witnesses said. The gunmen fired at the convoy carrying Sheikh Fares Manaa, arrested in late January for allegedly trafficking arms to Shiite rebels in northern Yemen, the sources said. The gunmen were identified as members of Manaa's tribe. A policeman was wounded but the convoy managed to make its way to the court, an AFP correspondent reported. The court decided to keep Manaa in custody for 25 more days to "complete the investigations," a judicial source told AFP. The government had put the name of Manaa at the top of a blacklist of arms dealers published on the front page of the official Ath-Thawra newspaper last October. Manaa, who is a brother of the governor of Saada province in the north, formerly headed a committee mediating in last year's war between the government and Saada-based Zaidi Shiite rebels, also known as Huthis. Local sources said upon Manaa's arrest that the rebels had stolen weapons from arms depots which he owned. He had not reported the theft until two days later, allowing the rebels to make off with around 20 truckloads of arms. The sources said the incident angered Sanaa, which had been pressing an all-out assault on the Huthis since August. Gun ownership has long been a key part of Yemeni culture. The country has an estimated 60 million firearms in private hands, roughly three for every man, woman and child.
Share This Article With Planet Earth
Related Links The Long War - Doctrine and Application
Pentagon bans four reporters from Guantanamo trialsWashington (AFP) May 7, 2010 The Pentagon has banned four journalists from covering trials at Guantanamo after they published the name of an interrogator testifying at a hearing. The Pentagon said Thursday reporters from the Miami Herald and three Canadian news organizations, the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail and CanWest news service, had violated a request from the military judge to keep the identity of the witness ... read more |
|
|
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2010 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any Web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy Statement |
del.icio.us
Digg
Reddit
YahooMyWeb
Google
Facebook