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Offline Wretched Excess

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Yemen arrests 19 after U.S. embassy attack
« on: September 18, 2008, 02:47:07 AM »

that didn't take long.

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Yemen arrests 19 after U.S. embassy attack

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemeni authorities have arrested 19 people suspected of being connected to al Qaeda and having links to Wednesday's attack on the heavily fortified U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Al-Arabiya television said on Thursday.

Two suicide car bombs set off a series of explosions outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen, killing 16 people including six attackers. No U.S. citizens were hurt.

The U.S. State Department said the bombings bore "all the hallmarks" of an al Qaeda attack but the United States had not yet concluded who was to blame.

A group calling itself Islamic Jihad in Yemen, which is unrelated to the Palestinian group with a similar name, claimed responsibility and threatened attacks on other embassies including those of Britain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

It threatened to launch a series of attacks unless Yemen freed several jailed members.

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Re: Yemen arrests 19 after U.S. embassy attack
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2008, 06:15:09 AM »
19 huh?....a few million more and they might make a little headway with the problem.
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Re: Yemen arrests 19 after U.S. embassy attack
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2008, 08:30:19 AM »
They just went out and rounded up the first 19 people they found.

The guys who pulled it off are probably getting medals from the Yemeni security services right now.
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Re: Yemen arrests 19 after U.S. embassy attack
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2008, 05:35:00 PM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on September 18, 2008, 08:30:19 AM
They just went out and rounded up the first 19 people they found.

The guys who pulled it off are probably getting medals from the Yemeni security services right now.

I sorta wondered the same thing. 
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