almotamar.net - The Swiss Federal Criminal Court tries Monday seven Yemeni citizens on charges of establishing relations with al-Qaeda organization three of them are charged of offering support to operation of blasts in Al-Riyadh Quarter on 12 May 2003.

Four of the defendants are facing charges pertaining to helping persons to infiltrate into Switzerland illegally by forging residency documents. Other three defendants are charged with assisting Abdullah al-Raimy, a member of al-Qaeda organization who took part in the attack on the USS Cole Destroyer and the blasts of Riyadh.

Switzerland began investigating in this case 8 days after he explosions of Riyadh after informing Saudi authorities that a cell phone was found out with the corpse of one perpetrators of the operation using Swiss prepaid communication systems made by the swiss communication company and the telephone call number was used from inside Switzerland and was displayed in memory of a cell phone in Riyadh. The telephone was confiscated by the Saudi authorities from one of those involved in the blasts.

In the light of this information the Swiss prosecution opened investigation in which the telephone was subjected to communications and then there was more information acquired.
On the other hand the Swiss police had analyzed sources of thousands of telephone calls registered with it saying one of the implementers of explosions exchanged calls with one three defendants living in Switzerland especially on the 9 and 12 May, the Saudi Al-Watan newspaper said Saturday.

Abdullah Ahmed Saleh al-Raimy is one of al-Qaeda 23 elements who managed to escape from the political security prison in Sana'a in February last year.