a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/14/yemen.terrorist.sentencing/index.html"CNN:/abr /br /blockquoteA judge in Yemen sentenced six al Qaeda terrorists to death and sent 10 others to prison for up to 15 years, the state-run Saba news agency reported.br /br /p The ring, known as the Tarim cell, belonged to the Yemen wing of the al Qaeda terrorist organization, the agency said./pp The group, which included four Syrians and a Saudi, had been convicted of bombing oil and military facilities and foreign diplomatic missions, including the U.S. and Italian embassies, Saba reported. /pp The Tarim cell also killed tourists in 2007 and 2008 and attacked a residential area where Westerners live./pp Ring members were arrested in 2008./pp The convicted men shouted at the judge when he passed down the a href="http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/Criminal_Sentencing_and_Punishment" class="cnnInlineTopic"sentences/a Monday, with one man threatening that a href="http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/Al_Qaeda" class="cnnInlineTopic"al Qaeda/a wings in Yemen would kill the magistrate, Saba said./pp...br //pbr //blockquoteTheir shouts point out the wisdom of the judges sentences. The death penalty has been shown to be 100 percent effective at stopping recidivism among those executed. The likelihood that these guys would change their opinion after being jailed is remote.br /br /It is interesting to see that Yemen is taking the threat these people pose seriously for a change. Yemen has become one of the places to go for terrorist who are leaving Afghanistan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The government needs to create a hostile environment for al Qaeda's religious bigots.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5051247-8703381902932612108?l=prairiepundit.blogspot.com'//div
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