A Yemeni court today sentenced a man to death for murdering an American missionary doctor and two of her colleagues in the Arab state last year.
Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel said he killed the three Christian missionaries to get closer to God. He condemned the ruling as a violation of Islamic sharia law and his lawyer said he would appeal the sentence.
Kamel (30) smuggled a rifle into a Baptist hospital in the southern town of Jibla last December and shot dead a doctor and two of her colleagues and wounded an American pharmacist.
Anti-US feeling is high in Yemen - the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden, leader of the al Qaeda network that Washington blames for the September 11th attacks on US cities.