Imam Anwar Al-Aulaqi will not surrender

SANAA - The radical imam Anwar al-Aulaqi, wanted in Yemen and in the United States has no intention of surrendering to the Yemeni authorities, with whom no negotiation is ongoing, declared Wednesday one of his relatives.

•    According to journalist Abdulelah Shaea, who is a friend of the US-Yemeni preacher with whom he claims to have been in contact recently, the assertions of the authorities in Sanaa that contacts have been made to reach his surrender are false.
  
     "Anwar al-Aulaqi told me that nobody has contacted him and nothing is negotiated. He has no intention of surrendering," said Shaea, reputed to be one of the Yemeni Journalists better informed about the jihadist movement in his country.
  
     It was he who, on December 23, had made the first interview of the young imam, already in flight, in which al-Aulaqi confirmed to have been in contact with the American commander Nidal Hassan, who fired on November 5 soldiers in Fort Hood (Texas), killing 13 people.
  
     "Anwar is at home, protected by his tribe. The police and the army know that it is impossible to get him there," said Shaea. "He has no confidence in a government that has jailed him without charge in 2006 and freed him after a year and a half without having been tried."
  
     Saturday, Nasser Aulaqi, the father of the preacher, had confirmed to a Yemeni weekly that his son was in the province of Chabwa, one of the strongholds of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQPA).
  
     "There are probably members of Al Qaeda who provide protection, but because they are part of the same tribe and not because he is a member of Al Qaeda," he said.
  
      
  Ennaharonline/ M. O.