Yemen – Prosecutor Urges Death Penalty for Murder of Jew

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    Aziz Yahya al-Abdi shouts during his second court hearing (Photo credit AFP)

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    Yemen – The prosecution demanded the death sentence today for the Yemeni Muslim who has boasted of killing a Jewish compatriot north of the capital Sanaa late last year.

    The court set March 2 as the date for its verdict against Abdul Aziz Yahya al-Abdi, 39, who admitted in December to shooting dead Masha Yaeish al-Nahari in the town of Raydah in Amran province.

    Abdi, peering from the dock into the court through an iron gate, showed no remorse for his actions and repeatedly interrupted the prosecutor during the hearing to renew his confession.

    The former air force pilot has repeatedly said he carried out the murder after warning Yemeni Jews that he would kill them unless they converted to Islam.

    “I told them in a letter that they should either convert to Islam or leave Yemen, or I would kill them,” he said at an earlier hearing.

    The small courtroom was packed with several dozen other members of Abdi’s Kharef tribe, many wearing a traditional jambiya or curved dagger on their belts.
    Many were relatives of Abdi who had come to support him and they laughed wholeheartedly at his often incoherent remarks.

    The only Jewish people present were the victim’s father and widow — also the only woman in the courtroom.

    Other members of the region’s small Jewish community attended two earlier hearings but stayed away today because of threats by Abdi’s supporters, Yahya Yaish, an elder of the community, said.

    “I am not mad,” the accused man shouted, even as his four lawyers sought to show that he was not responsible for Nahari’s death because of his state of mind.

    Abdi, who demanded the death penalty in compliance with Sharia law, killed his wife five years ago but escaped prison when he was ruled to be of unsound mind.

    Nahari’s father said Abdi accosted his son, with whom he was not acquainted, near the victim’s home and insisted that he convert to Islam.

    Nahari, who taught Hebrew in one of Raydah’s two Jewish schools and had nine children of his own, asked to be left alone but Abdi then opened fire with a submachine gun until he was riddled with bullets, the bereaved father said.

    Some 250 of Yemen’s remaining Jewish minority of around 400 live in Amran.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Yemach shmo v’zichro.Even if he is insane let him be removed for the danger he imposes.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    This I gotta see! Arabs killing another arab because he killed a Jew. They’ll probably find him innocent and throw a parade for him!

    KJ boy
    KJ boy
    15 years ago

    Hashem Yinkom Dumoi.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    they should slice his hest open while he is awake and replace his organs one by one with those of a pig
    and broadcast it live on al-jessira!
    this will show those arab pigs a lesson

    Askipeh Hanidreses
    Askipeh Hanidreses
    15 years ago

    Can you imagine in America that relatives of a murderer attending court sessions and openly supporting the murder IN COURT? We get here a glimpse how the whole world once was; barbaric, barbaric, barbaric.

    My prediction is that he will be given a slap on the wrist, and that’s ONLY because the world is watching, and after some house arrest or some time in an asylum (for the sane), he will be free to kill again; this time maybe his second wife.