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Yemen: Thirty suspects arrested over US embassy blast
 (AKI) - Yemeni police have arrested at least 30 people with suspected links to Al-Qaeda in relation to the deadly blast outside the US Embassy in the capital, Sanaa, on Wednesday.Two suicide car bombs set off a series of explosions outside the heavily fortified US embassy, killing 16 people, including four civilians. The victims were all Yemeni, except for a 26-year old Indian nurse. No US citizens were killed in the attack. The US State Department on Wednesday condemned the bombings saying they bore "all the hallmarks" of an Al-Qaeda attack. A group calling itself Islamic Jihad in Yemen has claimed responsibility and threatened attacks on other embassies including those of Britain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, unless Yemen frees several jailed members of the group. Islamic Jihad in Yemen has no connection with the Palestinian group with a similar name. I'd guss they do have a connection with Egyptian Islamic Jihad... An Al-Qaeda affiliated group claimed responsibility in March for a mortar attack that missed the same US embassy but wounded 13 girls at a nearby school. The US State Department ordered all non-essential diplomatic staff to leave the country a month after that embassy attack, later claimed by Al-Qaeda's Jund al-Yemen Brigades. Posted by: Fred 2008-09-19 |
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