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Yemen Arrests 9 in Tourist Attack |
2007-08-14 |
![]() The attack happened in early July when a suicide bomber plowed his explosives-laden car into the tour group's convoy at a temple linked to the ancient Queen of Sheba in the central province of Marib. Eight Spaniards and two Yemenis were killed. Officials said earlier this month that they had used DNA to identify the body of the suicide bomber, 21-year-old Abdu Mohammed Saad Ahmed, a Yemeni citizen. The government said he was part of a 10-person terror cell that included eight Yemenis, a Saudi national and an Egyptian. The Egyptian, Ahmed Bassiouni Dewidar, an alleged al-Qaida operative, was killed three days after the attack while resisting arrest. Prior to Monday's operation, more than a dozen people had been detained in connection with the investigation, but none of the members of the terror cell had been captured. |
Posted by:Steve White |