Yemen says militants planned attack on embassies
A group of Islamic militants arrested over the last month in Yemen has confessed to planning attacks on U.S. and British embassies and had ties to al Qaeda, a senior Yemeni official said on Thursday.
"Ouch, put that down! I confess!"
Police seized ammunition and bomb-making manuals from the group of about 20 suspects who were from Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Syria, the official said, adding: "It was like a laboratory." "They are believed to be an al Qaeda cell but they are regrouped under a new name the Unitarian Brigade," he told Reuters.
Those damm Unitarianâs! I never trusted them.
"It seems their orders were coming from Afghanistan."
Call forwarding, perhaps?
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is believed to be dead hiding in Afghanistan or in Pakistan. The Yemeni official said those arrested had confessed to plotting to attack the U.S. and British embassies and Western envoys. He said the group received funds from a businessman in Saudi Arabia and that a Yemeni student had been arrested for carrying money from Saudi Arabia for the militants.
Tap, tap, nope.
Posted by: Steve 2003-10-16 |