Al-Qaida financier arrested

A YEMEN interior ministry official says the biggest and most important financier for the al-Qaida terror network in Yemen and Saudi Arabia has been arrested in the impoverished Arabian peninsula nation.

Hassan Hussein Bin Alwan, a Saudi national, is to face charges of being involved in forming an armed group in Yemen designed to carry out terrorist attacks and of financing the group’s activities.

Yemen, the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, had long been a haven for Islamists.