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Yemen Arrests Al-Qaeda Suspect
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SANAA, 30 November 2003 — Police have arrested an Al-Qaeda activist who worked with Muhammad Hamdi Al-Ahdal, a top figure in the Yemeni branch of the terror network who was himself detained last week, a security official said yesterday.
“Hedi Dalqam, an Al-Qaeda activist, was arrested at the start of November,” the official told AFP news agency describing him as a “colleague” of Al-Ahdal.
The Interior Ministry announced Friday that Al-Ahdal had been caught only on Tuesday.
In Washington, a US official said Al-Ahdal may be implicated in the bomb attack on the USS Cole three years ago which killed 17 American sailors. The alleged operative, who reportedly lost a leg fighting in Chechnya, had not figured on the FBI’s list of wanted terrorists. It is believed Al-Ahdal also fought in Bosnia and Afghanistan.
The ministry said security officials had been watching the 32-year-old for several months before surrounding his home and forcing him to surrender.
Yemeni authorities believe Al-Ahdal was the second-in-command to Ali Qaed Sunian Al-Harithi, alias Abu Ali Al-Harithi, who was among the six Al-Qaeda suspects killed in November 2002 in a CIA missile attack.
Al-Harithi has been described by the United States and Yemen as a top Al-Qaeda leader and planner of the October 12, 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in the port of Aden.
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