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Yemeni was sentenced to death and 14 others to jail...

Yemeni was sentenced to death and 14 others to jail over the 2002 bombing of the French supertanker Limburg and for other attacks

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Yemeni was sentenced to death and 14 others to jail over the 2002 bombing of the French supertanker Limburg and for other attacks.
Huzam Saleh Mejalli was condemned for killing a policeman, while the 14 others received sentences ranging between three and 10 years for forging documents and for attacks against foreign targets.
The court, which deals with state security, ordered seven defendants - including fugitive Yasser Ali al-Madani - to serve 10 years over planning and carrying out the Limburg bombing. Five others were sentenced to five years for forging documents and planning attacks against former US Ambassador Edmund Hull and several embassies in Yemen.
The remaining two received three-year sentences for falsifying documents and committing state security crimes. The defendants, aged between 23 and 27, had been accused of forming an armed group to undermine security in Yemen in attacks including the bombing of the Limburg as it prepared to enter Ash-Shir port off Yemen's southeastern coast in October 2002.
One Bulgarian crew member was killed and 12 other crew were wounded when an explosion ripped through the tanker.
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  • (Sources: Utusan.com, 28/08/2004)