BEIRUT, Lebanon — Militants disguised as soldiers ambushed the United States embassy compound in Sana, Yemen, Wednesday morning with rocket-propelled grenades and at least one suicide car bomb, in an attack that left 16 people dead including six of the attackers, Yemeni officials said. more..http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/world/middleeast/18yemen.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
Yemen bombing: Country where al-Qaida is holding its ground
The latest attack on the US embassy in Sana'a, Yemen's capital, bears all the hallmarks of al-Qaida, which may be on its heels in Iraq and elsewhere but not in this impoverished country.
Security experts says a second generation of terrorists is thriving in Yemen, where al-Qaida struck at the USS Cole in Aden in 2000, killing 17 US sailors. Along with the bombings against the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the attack on the US destroyer presaged the September 11 atrocities on US soil. more..http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/17/yemen.alqaida?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
Security experts says a second generation of terrorists is thriving in Yemen, where al-Qaida struck at the USS Cole in Aden in 2000, killing 17 US sailors. Along with the bombings against the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the attack on the US destroyer presaged the September 11 atrocities on US soil. more..http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/17/yemen.alqaida?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
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