Espionage network for Israel arrested in Yemen

President Saleh revealed on Monday that security forces in Yemen caught an espionage network for Israel made up of Arab nationals. This announcement came during his speech in front of MP's, Shura Council members, local council members, scholars and military and security leaders at Hadhramout University.

According to the president the suspected spies will be brought before the courts shortly in a public trial after investigations are complete.

The network was comprised of 40 people from different Arab nationalities spying for Mossad, the Israeli international intelligence said sources from National and Political Security Units. The members of the espionage network entered Yemen on the premise of conducting business, tourism and even for preaching in mosques. Saleh said that the suspected spies form a terrorism cell that uses also Islam to reach their targets.Members were arrested individually and found to be in possession of detailed maps for sensitive security sites, intelligence telecommunication units and advanced tracking devices.

He called on the political parties and local councils to cooperate with the security forces to combat terrorism and to reject this phenomenon and guard against its spread in Yemeni society.

" Religious scholars of Hadhramout were the ones who spread the word of peace of Islam to the East and South Asia and were ahead of everyone that is why we do not want to Hadhramout to be a center for terrorists and terrorism," said Saleh.

President Saleh said that Yemenis at large denounce all acts of terrorism that harms the country in all aspects and facets of life and that these terrorists want only to defame and distort the image of Yemen

President Saleh said that the terrorists do not know what they want and have no political agenda that can make the government dialogue with them. They only have hatred against Yemen at large hatred against children, women, old people not only against the government and its leadership, Saleh added.

 

 

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