almotamar.net - Specialised First Instance Penal Court has on Saturday resumed its sittings for the prosecution of those charged with conducting telephone calls with Israel and charges of forgery and fraud.

In the session chaired by Judge Muhsin Alwan the attorney general presented confessions of the first defendant Bassam al-Haydary as included in minutes of gathering evidence and investigations of the prosecution.

Confessions of al-Haydary, 26, mentioned that he communicated with the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert via email of the Israeli government and the email of the wife of the Israeli president. The communication mentioned,� We the Islamic Jihad Organisation and you the Jews if you promised you are truthful despite that you are enemies of God and Islam and you are not liars like Arab rulers. If you want us to be a tumbling stone in your favour in the Middle East, we are ready and it is u to you.�

The prosecution added that the reply came on the same email saying that they accept to support them and ready for anything they (Jihad) organisation wanted. The defendant�s confessions indicated that he sent a statement on the email mentioning that ten car bombs would be prepared. 6 of them at the gates of the presidential palace and the remainders are distributed on the ministry of interior, and the embassies of Britain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and America. The statement was signed by the name of the Islamic Jihad Organisation spokesman Abu al-Ghaith. The defendant admitted he had sent the first statement on the day of the car bomb explosion incident in the city of Tarim. The statement said that the Islamic Jihad of Yemen branch announced its responsibility for Hadramout operation. The statement demanded the Yemeni government to cancel an artistic party it was scheduled to be attended by one of the Arab artists or to pay a sum of $5 million to the Islamic Jihad organisation, branch of Yemen to stop the attack on the party.

The defendant confirmed what was mentioned in the statement of investigation concerning his confessions and that he had signed the papers.

The trial was then postponed to 26 of this month to enable the prosecution present statements of the rest of the defendants and their lawyer to present his defence. .