28 May 2014 :

judicial officials in Yemen said a state security court has sentenced an al-Qaida militant to death over the bombing of an intelligence headquarters in the country's south that killed a dozen soldiers in 2010. The court headed by Judge Helal Mahfal convicted Ahmed Qadri of belonging to Yemen's al-Qaida branch and taking part in the bombing in the country's second-largest city, Aden. The officials also said the judge convicted and sentenced another nine alleged al-Qaida militants to up to 10 years in prison for a failed assassination attempt targeting President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi earlier this year. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to brief reporters.