A Yemeni court today jailed six men for plotting to blow up the British and Italian missions and the French cultural centre in the capital, Sanaa.
The men, who include a Kuwaiti of Iraqi origin and two Syrians, were also convicted of forming an armed group with links to al-Qaeda after a trial which began in March.
The court acquitted two defendants. The rest were sentenced to jail terms ranging from three months to four years.
"Long live justice," cried the two Yemenis who were acquitted as the lawyer of the six convicted men, said he would appeal the verdict.
"The evidence used to convict the men is not legitimate. This verdict is not fair," he added.
Yemen, the ancestral homeland of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has cracked down on militants since the September 11th attacks and has co-operated with the US-led "war on terrorism".
It has captured and sentenced several al-Qaeda followers, including those behind the 2000 USS Colebombing and the 2002 attack on the French supertanker Limburg.