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NEW YORK  — A Yemeni sheik accused of funneling millions of dollars to terrorist networks warned U.S. agents that "Allah will bring storms" to America because of his arrest, according to newly filed court papers.Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad (search ) made the remark last year after a German court ordered him extradited to the United States to face charges he helped finance Al Qaeda (search) and Hamas, prosecutors said in the documents filed in U.S. District Court. The statement — spoken in English to agents bringing al-Moayad from Frankfurt to New York on Nov. 16, 2003 — counter defense claims that...

NEW YORK (AP) - An FBI informant who set himself on fire in front of the White House played a role in at least three terror investigations, court documents show. Defense attorneys said Wednesday they are re-examining Mohamed Alanssi's role in the cases against their clients, who are accused of helping fund Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida and the Palestinian group Hamas. "Ultimately what I'm heading for is a motion for dismissal," said Frank Hancock, the lawyer for Abad Elfgeeh, a Yemeni-born man accused of illegally sending millions of dollars overseas. A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf, who filed the...

A court convicted 15 Yemeni militants on terror charges including the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker and plotting to kill the US ambassador. One man was sentenced to death for killing a Yemeni police officer and seven received 10 year prison terms. Six of the defendants plus the one man tried in absentia, who received the longest prison terms, 10 years, were found guilty of participating in the October 2002 bombing of the Limburg oil tanker, which killed one Bulgarian crew member and spilled 90,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Aden. The conviction of one of...

SAN`A, Yemen (AP) - A Yemeni politician and religious figure - designated a suspected terrorist by the United States - declared his innocence Saturday and called on Washington to substantiate its allegations. On Tuesday, Sheik Abdulmajid al-Zindani, an Afghan war veteran and the spiritual leader of the Islamic-oriented Islah Party, was added to a U.S. Treasury Department list of those suspected of supporting terrorist activities. The allegation claimed al-Zindani, who is in his 60s, had "a long history of working with Osama bin Laden, notably serving as one of his spiritual leaders." The Treasury Department said al-Zindani had actively recruited...

<p>WASHINGTON — U.S. forces in Iraq believe they may be facing an Al Qaeda cell in Fallujah after a man with suspected ties to the terror network was captured last week, sources told Fox News Friday.</p> <p>The man said to have been arrested was Husam al-Yemeni, said to be part of the leadership structure of Ansar al-Islam (search), the Al Qaeda-associated terrorist group based in Iraqi Kurdistan. Some U.S. officials described al-Yemeni as the first Al Qaeda operative captured in Iraq.</p>

WASHINGTON -- U.S. forces in Iraq captured a leader of the insurgency who is believed to be a close associate of Abu Musab Zarqawi, described by some as a key link between the al-Qaida terrorist network and toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a senior American official said Friday. U.S. troops captured Husam al-Yemeni last Thursday, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. He is described by U.S. officials as the leader of an insurgency cell in Fallujah, west of Baghdad. The official said al-Yemeni is the highest-level member of Ansar al-Islam captured so far. The group comprises mainly ethnic...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court said Monday it had approved the extradition to the United States of two Yemeni citizens suspected of links to the al Qaeda network who were arrested in Frankfurt in January on a U.S. request. The men are Yemeni Muslim cleric Sheikh Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Mouyad and his assistant, Mohammed Moshen Yahya Zayed. U.S. authorities accuse the two of being al Qaeda supporters, but have not linked them directly with the September 11, 2001 hijacked airliner attacks on the United States. U.S. officials accuse Sheikh Mohammed, a preacher at Al Ihsan Mosque, one of the...

SANNA (Reuters) - A Yemeni Islamic cleric arrested in Germany for suspected al Qaeda links has said he was lured to travel there to receive a charitable donation from a U.S. Muslim, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday. Sheikh Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Mouyad, held along with an aide in Germany on a U.S. request last week, said he had been led to believe the U.S. Muslim man wanted to meet him to make a contribution, the September 26 weekly said. The cleric told Yemen's ambassador at a German detention center he had been told "he should travel to the United...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - German officials are considering whether to extradite two Yemeni al-Qaida suspects arrested last week at Washington's request, officials said Monday. No date has been set for any decision, said Wolfgang Frank, a spokesman for the state court in Frankfurt, which will have to rule on the case. The men, Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayyed and Said Mohammed Mohsen, were arrested Friday at the Sheraton hotel near Frankfurt's international airport following a U.S. request for their arrest with a view to extradition. German officials say al-Moayyed, 58, is suspected of organizing logistics for al-Qaida in Yemen. Mohsen is...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German authorities, acting on a U.S. request, arrested two Yemeni men Friday on suspicion they belong to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida organization, a German security official said. Federal and state police arrested the men at a hotel at the Frankfurt international airport, the security official said on condition of anonymity. One of the men was identified as Mohammed Ali Hassan Sheik al Mujahed, in his mid-50s. He is supposed to have been the imam of a large mosque in the Yemeni capital, San`a, and is suspected of being responsible for al-Qaida's logistics in Yemen, the official...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under its new chairman, Richard Lugar, should make its first order of business an inquiry into President Bush's maladroit and shortsighted decision-making in the So San affair. Our National Security Agency, to its credit, spotted the movement of 15 Scud missiles and 85 drums of chemicals from a factory in North Korea to its secret loading aboard the freighter So San, and tracked the unflagged ship around the world to the Arabian Sea. The C.I.A. was unable to determine the customer of these offensive weapons, unreliable in military combat but useful in striking terror into...

JAKARTA - Two foreigners - a Yemeni and a Malaysian - are suspected to have played a key role in the Bali bombing. Senior Indonesian intelligence sources told The Straits Times that the two, especially Yemeni national and Al-Qaeda operative Syahfullah, provide clear evidence that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network had a direct hand in the Oct 12 blasts. They said the 40-year-old Syahfullah, who was known to be responsible for a series of terrorist attacks in the Middle East, particularly the bombing of an American military barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 soldiers, entered Indonesia on a forged...

<p>SAN`A, Yemen (AP) --  A Yemeni man died when a bomb he was carrying exploded in a crowded market on Friday, injuring two bystanders, police said.</p> <p>Police said it was difficult to identify the man because his body was blown to pieces. It was not immediately clear if the bomb exploded prematurely. The blast occurred in a market in Yemen's capital, San`a.</p>

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — An explosion ripped through a residential building in the capital San'a Friday, killing two bombmakers, police said. The Ministry of Interior said in a statement the homemade bomb went off prematurely, killing one person instantly and seriously wounding another, who later died on the way to a hospital. One of the victims was identified by police as Mohammed Abdel Khaleq al-Boreihi. The identity of the other and the motive for the bombing were not immediately clear. Police said three people, including one who shared the rented apartment with the victims, were arrested and were being interrogated....