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Article: Yemeni-American on FBI `most wanted' list jailed in San'a
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- May 19, 2008
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A Yemeni-American on the FBI's "most wanted" list of terror suspects was jailed in Yemen after an appeals court upheld his 10-year prison sentence, officials said Monday.
Washington offered a reward of up to US$5 million for information leading to Jaber Elbaneh's arrest, but Yemeni law forbid his extradition even after police arrested him in 2004 for membership in al-Qaida.
He has also been convicted in plots to attack oil installations in Yemen and of involvement in a 2002 attack on the French tanker Limburg off Yemen's coast that killed one person.
Yemeni authorities allowed Elbaneh to go free during an appeals process _ even after he was convicted, jailed, ...