almotamar.net - SANAA- Fawaz al-Rabie, the accused of his affiliation to al-Qaeda organization was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Sana�a.

A security source has mentioned that Fawaz al-Rabie and Mohammed al-Dalai were killed in an exchange of fire while security forces were surrounding the house in which they were hiding in one of Sana�a outskirts and that a third person was arrested.

Al-Rabie was sentenced to death in 2004 after he was condemned with several charges among them the planning for the attack on the French oil tanker Limburg in 202. He managed with 22 others of al-Qaeda members to escape from prison in February 2006. 13 of the escapees have voluntarily surrendered themselves to the authorities; two of them were killed in the two incidents targeting oil installations in Safer and al-Dhabbah last month.

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