 ABDULLAH
MUHSIN AL-JUNAIDI ("Abu Hadhifa")
Aged 20, from Wadi 'Abdan in Shabwa province. He was among
the group that kidnapped the tourists [on December 28].
He says the kidnap was planned the previous evening in the
house of the accused Ali al-Khadr al-Hajj. He became acquainted with Abu al-Hassan
[commander of the Islamic Army] at someone's house in Aden while he was working with the
owner of the house. He also met Abu al-Hassan twice in Sana'a during 1997 and spent 10
days with him at a house in the Sheraton district of the city. Abu al-Hassan met a number
of people there, including a man known as "Abu Ali al-Harith".
Al-Junaidi says he joined the Islamic Army at the
beginning of 1998 and underwent training in revolvers, automatic rifles, RPGs, mines,
bombs, and tactics. Weapons training was carried out by Khalid al-Yazaidi and tactical
training by "Usama al-Masri".
In Ja'ar, about four months after the failure of the
Huttat camp, he met Abu al-Hassan who told him about the existence of the Islamic Army and
asked him to join it. Abu al-Hassan had set up a temporary camp which comprised about 18
people …
Al-Junaidi says the aim of the Islamic Army was to
establish the shari'a because the state's rule was not complying; it had imported
democracy from infidel countries and was imposing American and British interests on Yemen. |
HUSSEIN MUHAMMAD SALIH ("Abu
Huraira")