A firing squad in Yemen has executed a second Islamic militant who killed three American missionaries in a Yemeni hospital in 2002. Abed Abdul Razak Kamel had been convicted of opening fire on a staff meeting at a Baptist hospital, killing hospital director William Koehn of Kansas, purchasing agent Kathleen Gariety of Wisconsin and Dr. Martha Myers of Alabama. Another Islamic militant, Ali al-Jarallah, was executed last November. Yemeni officials said that both may have been linked to al-Qaida and its leader, Osama bin Laden, who has ancestral roots in Yemen. Police found bin Laden audiotapes at Kamel’s house.
February 28, 2006
