Sana'a, Yemen - Yemen has extradited to Saudi Arabia eight
Saudis one week after Yemeni police uncovered suspected plots by al-
Qaeda to carry out terrorist attacks in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, a
state-run weekly reported Thursday.
The eight men were 'wanted by Saudi security authorities on
security-related charges,' said the 26 September newspaper, the
defence ministry mouthpiece.
'The handover was made within the past two days in line with
cooperation between the two brotherly countries, and under the
security cooperation agreement,' the paper quoted an unnamed security
source as saying.
This is the latest such handover between Yemen and its oil-rich
neighbour Saudi Arabia under an extradition agreement inked in 2003.
Last week, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said police had
discovered plots by al-Qaeda to strike targets in inside the country
and in Saudi Arabia.
Documents and blueprints for the plans were reportedly found after
police forces raided a hideout for al-Qaeda in south-eastern Yemen on
August 12.
Police killed five suspected members of al-Qaeda in the raid in
Tarim town of Hadhramout province.
Among the suspects killed was Hamza al-Quaiti, a suspected
mastermind of several car bomb attacks that hit Yemen in recent
years. Two other suspects were injured in the firefight and arrested
by police. Two police officers were killed in the clash.
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