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Yemen Foils Car Bomb Attacks
From Arab News, grain of salt required, but there was a travel advisory about âunspecified dangersâ in Yemen a couple days ago.
Yemen has foiled car bomb attacks against three embassies in the capital Sanaa as a previously unknown Islamist group calling itself the âQaeda of Jihadâ threatened to attack Yemeni officials and foreign interests. Security forces seized three vehicles packed with explosives intended to be used in bombing the US, UK and German embassies, a Western diplomat in Sanaa told Arab News yesterday. The diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Yemeni Interior Ministry alerted embassies of Western countries after the seizure of the cars over the weekend. He said the would-be attackers used fake diplomatic license plates for the three cars that were intercepted in different parts of Sanaa.
"How'dja know I wasn't a diplomat?"
"It might have been the turban..."
"Dammit! I coulda been a Pak diplomat!"
"And the automatic weapons..."
"Still coulda been a Pak diplomat."
"Uhhh... You ain't, are you?" |
A Yemeni weekly reported yesterday that five Islamist organizations announced in a statement that they had merged to set up a group called the âQaeda of Jihadâ, and threatened to stage attacks against top Yemeni officials and foreign interests. âThe Al-Qaeda organization has been strategically restructured to be named the Qaeda of Jihad, the international organization for fighting Zionists and crusaders,â the Al-Balagh newspaper quoted the statement as saying. The statement said the new group was formed by âmerging Al-Qaeda with the Egyptian Jihad Organization, the Yemeni Jihad Organization, the (Yemeni) Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, the Organization of Descendants of Companions (of the Prophet Muhammad) in the land of the Arabian Peninsula, and the Algerian Al-Dawa Al-Salafia group.â
| I'd take that as a sign they're all attrited by now. Another year of action in the WoT and the remnants will be merging with the Sanaa Rotary Club... |
The new group threatened to stage âwide-ranging assassinations that target Prime Minister (Abdul-Qader Ba-Jammal) and members of his Cabinet.â Dubbing foreign diplomatic missions and companies âlegitimate targetsâ for its attacks, the group warned Yemenis to stay away from those targets to secure their safety. It said that 48 suicide combatants were ready to strike. The new group named Al-Moutaz Bellah Al-Qandahari Al-Yamani as its leader.
Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-10-01 |
