15 convicted on Yemen terror charges
A court convicted 15 Yemeni militants today 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 one man tried in his absence, received the 10-year prison terms after being 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 those men, Fawaz al-Rabeiee, also included the attack, a month later, on a helicopter carrying Hunt Oil employees and for detonating explosions at a civil aviation authority building.
Al-Rabeiee also was fined 18 million Yemeni riyals €84,000 to compensate for the building damage.
