Two Al Qaeda activists held

Published March 5, 2004

ABYAN, Yemen, March 4: Security forces have arrested another member of Al Qaeda, Egyptian Sayyed Imam Sherif, during a hunt for extremists in the country, officials said on Thursday.

The announcement of Sherif's arrest followed one earlier in the day that security forces had netted Abdul Rauf Nassib, a top Al Qaeda leader, on Wednesday in the same operation in Yemen's southern province. - AFP