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Embassy Attacker in Yemen gets Jailtime
On November 12, 2007, the Primary Penal Court in Sanaa sentenced Saleh Alawi al-Amari to five years in jail for shooting at the United States Embassy in Yemen. As reported in Newsyemen.net, Saleh had fired an automatic weapon at the building the previous December in what the prosecutor described as protest against U.S. policies in Iraq and Afghanistan. Saleh also resented U.S. support for the Israelis in Lebanon and Palestine. The court, headed by Judge Mohsin Alwan, found Saleh guilty, noting that Yemeni law prohibits such attacks against foreigners. -- Genevieve Cohoon, legal assistant, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington.
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