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| Yemen Forces Defuse Bomb-Laden Cars, Search for More |
| 2013-12-11 |
| [An Nahar] Yemeni security forces have defused two booby-trapped vehicles and are searching for five others in Sanaa following a deadly attack on the defense ministry last week, police said Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, the security forces launched a major operation to locate and rid the capital of the bombs, and managed to find two of them on Monday, a police official told Agence La Belle France Presse. "Special forces units are searching for five others," the official said, adding that "al-Qaeda suspects have been nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in raids." Authorities have beefed up security around government buildings as well as embassies and foreign interests, especially in Sanaa, officials said. The measures come after Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula grabbed credit for a brazen daylight assault on the Yemeni defense ministry that killed 56 people on Thursday. A preliminary inquiry into Thursday's attack has shown that most of the attackers were Saudis. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... in the country's southeastern Hadramawt province, an al-Qaeda stronghold, gunnies shot up an army vehicle that was handing out food supplies at a checkpoint, killing two soldiers before fleeing, a military official told AFP. |
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