Al Qaeda Suicide Bomber Kills 9 In Yemen

7 Spaniards And 2 Yemenis Killed At Popular Temple Site

(CBS/AP)  An al Qaeda suicide bomber drove into a convoy of Spanish tourists visiting an ancient Yemeni temple, officials said, killing seven Spaniards and two Yemenis less than two weeks after a U.S. terror warning about the area.

Witnesses said the bomber drove a car through the gate of the temple compound, and the vehicle exploded near the structure, which was built about 3,000 years ago and dedicated to the Queen of Sheba.

Spain's foreign minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, said seven dead and five wounded — one seriously — were Spaniards when the bomber drove into the middle of the Spanish convoy.

A four-wheel drive pick-up car entered the site as a procession of four cars was getting ready to get out from the site with police escorts, Deputy Minister of Interior, General Brigade Mohammed al-Qusi told the Yemen Observer.

Witnesses who arrived after the scene said the only saw bits of cars and bodies strewn on the ground, he said.

"We could not recognizes what kind of cars they were, we just saw small parts of them here and there, and dead bodies were burning," he said. "It was very horrible sight."

No one claimed responsibility for the attack in the central Marib province, about 85 miles east of the capital San'a, but authorities linked the suicide bomber to al Qaeda. Police said they received information last month about a possible al Qaeda attack.

Less than two weeks ago, the U.S. Embassy warned Americans to avoid the area. On June 23 in the neighboring Shabwa province, a Yemeni guard opened fire on a group of foreign oil workers shortly after they landed at a company airstrip, killing one and wounding five — including an American.

The provincial governor said at the time that the guard was mentally ill, but the U.S. Embassy in San'a canceled travel to the two provinces "for the near future" and recommended that Americans avoid the area.

Spain has also issued warnings about the area.

Al Qaeda has an active presence in Yemen, the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden, despite government efforts to fight the terror network. Al Qaeda was blamed for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Aden that killed 17 American sailors and the attack on a French oil tanker that killed one person two years later.

Yemen was a haven for Islamists from across the Arab world during the 1990s, but after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it declared support for the U.S. campaign against international terrorism. Its crackdown on militants has suffered a number of setbacks, however, such as the February 2006 prison breakout of 23 convicts — some of whom had been jailed for al Qaeda-linked crimes.

Foreign interests in Yemen often face low-level threats and tourists are frequently kidnapped by tribes seeking to win concessions from the government, either better services or the release of jailed relatives. Most of the hostages have been released unharmed.

[robertkjjj]

Thank you Mr Muslim, for more mindless slaughter. Just what we needed from the "religion of Peace".

[grazinggoat]

CBS: 'No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but police in Mareb said they had received information last month about a possible al Qaeda attack'.

-Another boogieman AQ...? Does this terrorist organization still exist?

[honest_news]

A bitter lesson for Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and all other current and former universities of Islamic Terrorism and Bestial Hatred who have had their alumni return with suicide bombs strapped to their chests:

As ye sow...

Lord make good come out of this!!

[afmca]

Another fine example of the courage and integrity of the Islamic terrorist movement. I bet Allah would be proud of his supposed foot soldiers. I see this and I am reminded of just how perverse these heretics of Islam really are. They should be eliminated like the cockroaches they are.

[feelfree1]

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***I*** ***look*** ***forward*** ***to*** ***the*** ***CBS*** ***technicians*** ***resolving*** ***these*** ***problems***.

[radiob-2009]

No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but security officials said they had received information last month about a possible Al Qaeda attack. The officials said Al Qaeda had demanded the release of some of its members jailed in the Arab state and that Sana reconsider its cooperation with Washington.

"Preliminary information indicates that the al-Qaeda organisation is behind the cowardly attack," an interior ministry official told the Sabam news agency.






"This criminal attack has killed seven Spanish tourists and two Yemeni nationals who worked as drivers and tourist guides, and wounded six Spanish tourists and two [Yemeni] nationals."


From AL Jazzera
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EA1EE031-5332-43BE-BE0C-15B9483348E4.htm

[feelfree1]

Re: "We could not recognizes what kind of cars they were, we just saw small parts of them here and there, and dead bodies were burning,"

Wow! And yet they were able to 'link' the driver to 'al Qaeda'. This is an astounding bit of police work...almost hard to believe, but CBS has indicated that it is to be 'believed', so who am I to question their findings?

[radiob-2009]

CBS must be monitoring the daylights out of these boards or they have a server problem virtually every story is closed down for comments including the one on Libby all in the space of seconds.To many hate filled posts.

[radiob-2009]

They're all scum*bags - top to bottom. But especially the one at the top.
Posted by hungry1968


And look at the candiates running for president,trade in one Yugo for a Escort.

[feelfree1]

radiob,

You appear to be attempting to engage me in a discussion.

I will remind you that recently you have attributed a vicious quote to me which I did not state, you have attributed a religious affiliation to me which is unsupported and incorrect, and you have repeatedly insisted that I acknowledge a meaningless 'right' allegedly retained by a certain country, whose very creation was a bad idea, in my opinion.

I would expect an apology for these previous acts, if you would hope to have future discussions with me.

[hungry1968]

Libby was just pardoned, what a injustice.How many lives did he endanger by outing Valerie Plame?
Posted by radiob at 05:57 PM : Jul 02, 2007

You knew it was coming. Libby could have shot and killed a class room full of elementary school kids, and this pig would have pardoned him. The law was broken, and because he's a political hack, he gets to walk away from jail.

It's perfectly in line with his ignoring the will of the American people, the Constitution, and the rule of law.

They're all scum*bags - top to bottom. But especially the one at the top.

[radiob-2009]

More on this attack

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070702/tpl-uk-yemen-blast-qaeda-aa3debf.html

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/02/news/yemen.php

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/topstories_story_183112754.html

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=9a2a8f37-1d7f-47a5-82d4-31108d33b723&k=56715

[radiob-2009]

Libby was just pardoned, what a injustice.How many lives did he endanger by outing Valerie Plame?

[aaabee-2009]

But!

The George Bush School at the Texas A & M University offers the following graduate certificate in international relations:

"Certificate in Advanced International Affairs"

[radiob-2009]

Vacuous and unsupported allegations, made by anonymous officials, and presented by unnamed 'journalists', are good enough for me.

Posted by FeelFree1


Do you have any idea of intel works? Should those that are working in intel be exposed? Reporters have been constantly under attack in the middle east, the sancity of being anoymous or the threat of death by being known.

[feelfree1]

Re: "An al Qaeda suicide bomber drove into a convoy of Spanish tourists visiting an ancient Yemeni temple, officials said"

"but authorities linked the suicide bomber to al Qaeda."

Thank you, CBS, for this fascinating report. I was not sure who I was supposed to hate and fear this week. Thank you for making this 'link' for us.

No need for any verification or to present any evidence of these claims.

Vacuous and unsupported allegations, made by anonymous officials, and presented by unnamed 'journalists', are good enough for me.

[radiob-2009]

Re: Reply

An American citizen was among the six al Qaeda suspects killed in a car explosion in Yemen over the weekend, according to a Yemeni official.
All the men who died were described by the official as "dangerous".

The six were killed when their car exploded in Marib province east of the capital Sanaa on Sunday.

"Investigations by Yemeni authorities found that Harthi was accompanied by five dangerous members of the al Qaeda network who were not ordinary passengers," the Yemeni official said.

The US national was identified by a government newspaper as Ahmed Hijazi.


Hijazi may have been the ringleader/recruiter of the later convicted Buffalo Six, also known as the Lackawanna Six, a domestic terrorist cell of Yemeni-American United States citizens formerly living in Lackawanna, New York (near Buffalo). [2] [3]

After their arrests in September 2002, following four to eight months of investigations, the six cell members were charged with providing material support to al-Qaeda. The U.S. prisoners reportedly then cooperated with investigators, which may have then led to information targeting Hijazi later that year. The six cell members later pled guilty.

Hijazi was traveling with Abu Ali al-Harithi, a suspected mastermind of the October 12, 2000 USS Cole bombing which had killed 17 American sailors, and injured 39 others, off the port coast of Aden, Yemen.

[notblue]

Hungry1968, how would you like Osam Bin Ladens finger on the button? If Osama had his finger on the button America would be DESTROYED by now. Be thankful Bush doesn't have the radical mentality of Al QUEDA or the middle east would be ONE BIG ASHTRAY by now!

[feelfree1]

Related:

Not long ago, the CIA executed and American citizen in Yemen, using an unmanned drone, and without any due process- based only on their claimed 'intelligence', and we all know what that is worth.

"American killed in CIA's Yemen attack"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2416403.stm

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'SharnCedar',

You are in top form.