Tuesday, October 31, 2006
ABDUL’S BOYS
Further details on those Auslim arrests in Yemen:
Two of the Australian men arrested in Yemen on terrorism charges are the sons of Abdul Rahim Ayub, the man who set up a Jemaah Islamiah cell here and fled after the Bali bombings.
The Herald can also reveal that the mother of the two brothers is an Australian-born woman called Rabiah Hutchison and is regarded by security agencies as possibly more radical than her former husband.
Ms Hutchison is in Yemen with her sons, Mohammed Ayub and Abdullah Ayub, and the Herald has been told that their tour group was joined by some of the wives of the men who were arrested on terrorism charges in Sydney one year ago.
The group - most of whom have been intensely monitored by ASIO for years - insist they went to Yemen to further their religious instruction.
And they seem to have done so.