Almotamar.net - The Special Penal Court fixed next Sunday a date for beginning to try 35 persons on charge of forming an armed gang to attack oil and tourist facilities and political personalities and foreigners living in Yemen.
A judicial source told almotamar.net that the 35 persons will stand trial before the court on charge of attacking oil installations in Hadramout and Mareb and among them is the bodyguard the Joint Meeting Parties for latest presidential elections candidate.

The source said among the charges against the defendants is that of hiding three escapees from the political security prison, namely Fawaz al-Rabie convicted on blasting the French oil tanker Limburg and was later killed in an engagement with security men, Ibrahim al-Huwaidi and Hamza al-Qaatabi in addition to resisting authority men charged with arresting them and possession of weapons and explosives, communication devices, vehicles and houses used for carrying out their operations.

Oil installations in al-Dhabba in Hadramout and Safir in Mareb were exposed to two terror attacks last September by car bombs causing damage to the two installations and the killing of a gate guard of Dhabba installation. The ministry interior had then announced names of implementers of the operations after seizing a terrorist group in Sana'a where it was revealed they had relations with the two suicide groups that carried out the two operations.

Confessions of the cell seized in Sana'a revealed that those who implemented the suicidal terrorist operation in Hadramout were: A-the brother of Ahmed Omar Zaid, one of the escapees from the political security prison
B-Hashim Khalid al-Iraqi.

The two suicide bombers who imp; lamented the terrorist operation in Mareb were Omar Saeed Hassan Jarallah (an escapee from the political security prison) and Ahmed Mohammed al-Abyadh.

A source for the interior ministry had at that time clarified that t the terrorist group was distributed to three groups:
-the first that implemented the operation in Hadramout
-the second carried out the operation in Mareb
-the third which was captured in the capital in possession of explosives and weapons, and were
1-Bandar Mohammed Hassan al-Akwaa
2-Ibrahim Ahmed Abdullah al-Salkhi
3-Amirudin Ali Mohammed al-Warfi, in addition to a fifth person who was the owner of the house where the cell was captured with their explosives, weapons and detonation devices and he is called Hussein Mohammed Saleh al-Tharhani. Al-Tharhani was then seen as bodyguard of the JMP candidate for the presidential elections Faisal bin Shamlan in a number of electoral festivals in governorates including the governorates of Dhalie and Mareb and was among those selected by the Yemeni Congregation for Reform to this task and to chant slogans. A witness reported to the security authorities said he had seen him on television and recognized him during interview and festivals. The witness affirmed that Tharhani was among terrorist elements at one of the camps set for training in Afghanistan and worked as bodyguard to Usama bin Ladedn and had earlier joined extremist groups.