Yemen's appeal court on Saturday halved the 10-year jail term of a top al Qaeda militant who has a five-million-dollar US bounty on his head. Jaber al-Banna was convicted last year while still at large of plotting a suicide bomb attack on oil facilities in Yemen in September 2006 that was foiled by police.
The court of appeal said in its verdict that Banna's sentence was reduced from 10 years to five because "he handed himself in to the authorities". Banna surrendered in December after several months of negotiations with officials.
There has been no word of what deal, if any, was struck. He was granted bail on February 23 after launching the appeal and providing a written statement promising to return to court for future hearings but was remanded in custody when he appeared at court on May 18.
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