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Al Qaeda In Yemen Claims Attack On Police Post In Hadramount

By CBS Investigates

July 28, 2008 / 5:35 PM EDT / CBS News

(Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula)

Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula, Yemen branch, is claiming responsibility for the attack on a police station in Saioun, Hadramout, east of the capital Sanaa. In an Internet statement, the group said that suicide bomber Abu Dajana al Hadrami carried out the attack which left two people dead and eight injured. The statement showed a picture of Hadrami, whose alias is Ahmed Ben Saeed al Mashgari. The statement claimed that the attack came in retaliation to the killing of some militants killed by Yemeni security forces. This same police station had been the target of a bomb attack last April. No casualties occurred then. No group had claimed responsibility for that attack, but Yemeni authorities had fingered al Qaeda.