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Liputan6.com, Sanaa: Yemen court on Wednesday (7 / 7), menvonis death sentence to two Al-Qaeda militants, having killed a senior police and army officers. The trial, held in the capital Sanaa, went so fast without a lawyer of the defendant.

Wearing a prison uniform, Mubarak el-Shabawni (23) and Mansour Salem (18), condemned the verdict and shouted "Allah akbar" after the hearing was closed. Both defendants were arrested in December last, because it has an attack that killed an intelligence officer in southern Yemen in 2009.

Yemen is the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, who became a strong Al-Qaeda nests. U.S. officials said, the rebels held a training in militant camps in Yemen, a weak area of the law, and making alliances with powerful tribes to oppose the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. (AP / Job)