according to this article. After last weekend's CIA Hellfire attack, those that don't repent may well be seeing Allah a lot sooner than they expected. I doubt they'll be getting their virgins, either.
We call on everyone from among our countrymen who have been entangled in membership of the al-Qaida organization to repent ... and renounce all means of violence," President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in a statement read by a Cabinet minister on national television.
Saleh said that those who "return to the path of righteousness" would be allowed to "return to society as good citizens with rights and obligations."
Yemeni analysts believed the statement was not an amnesty but a signal that al-Qaida members who surrender would face trial in Yemen and not be turned over to U.S. authorities.
Yemen's President (for life) calls on Al Qaida members to repent
