Yemen: Arrest of a suspected Al-Qaeda member
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SANAA - Yemeni police have arrested a suspected Al-Qaeda member in possession of documents of propaganda of extremist network, announced the Ministry of Interior on its website Sunday.
- The suspect, 26, identified as D. Charkane, was arrested in the province of Al-Baidah (268 km southeast of Sanaa), where police seized in his car 268 CDs containing propaganda material of Al-Qaeda leaders and photos of network leader Osama bin Laden.
- Some disks show different types of UAV and information on such devices as well as satellite images of traditional houses in Yemen, the ministry added, indicating that the suspect was interrogated by security services on the papers seized on him.
- Security forces are on high alert in their hunt for supporters of the extremist network, especially since the missed attack of Christmas 2009 against the Amsterdam-Detroit flight, claimed by al-Qaeda in Yemen.
- Ennaharonline/ M. O.
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