Yemen: Two Men Convicted of Attempted Murder On US Ambassador Set Free
The U.S. Embassy in Yemen.
An appeal court in Yemen ordered the release Monday of two Yemenis convicted of trying to kill the former US ambassador to Sanaa, Edmund Hull, in 2004. Hizam Ali al-Mass and Khaled Saleh al-Heleila were found guilty in 2006. The sentence was reduced from five years to three, and they were ordered released on time served.
According to their indictment, Hezam Ali Hassan, then 17, and Khaled Saleh, who was 18, followed the car of Ambassador Edmund Hull through the Sabeen area of San’a in 2003.
Hassan, armed with a pistol and two hand grenades, climbed the wall of a store Hull had entered, the indictment said. Guards apprehended him before he could throw the grenades, it said.
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