Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Al-Qaeda recruits young in Yemen

months young people, less than 18 years old, to carry out terrorist attacks in the country. Al-Qaeda leaders trained these people inside and outside Yemen. The announcement comes after the arrest of a most suspect wanted by Yemen and Saudi authorities, Abdullah Abdul Rahman al-Harbi who was held mid this month. Investigations with al-Harbi revealed he has been living in Yemen for nine months and that he, during the period and while he has worked as a tailor shop manager, recruited some faces to be al-Qaeda affiliates. A leader of an extremist group of those groups inspired by the ideology of al-Qaeda has married him to a Yemeni girl. Al-Aufi name was in a list of 85 wanted suspects the Saudi Interior Ministry made public in January. Investigations are ongoing with the arrestee to know if al-Qaeda had planned further attacks in Yemen after two recent suicide attacks against South Koreans, one of which a deadly attack that killed four South Korean tourists along with local guide and injured six others in eastern Yemen. A second suicide bomber blew himself up at South Korean investigators who arrived to investigate the Shibam attack but the convoy survived with no injuries. The Shibam suicide bomber is said to have trained in Somalia. FRSaba

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