Yemen breaks up 11 member Qaeda cell

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Suspects reveal “important information”
Yemen breaks up 11 member Qaeda cell






Six Saudi Arabians and three Chadians are among the people arrested (File)

SANAA (AFP)

Yemeni security forces have broken up an 11-member al-Qaeda cell in the capital Sanaa, the defense ministry's online newspaper reported on Thursday.

The suspects, who were arrested over the past few days, revealed during their interrogation "important information regarding terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda (in Yemen)," the September 26 website reported.

Al-Qaeda's wing in Yemen, which calls itself Jund Al-Yemen Brigades, has carried out a series of attacks in recent months targeting the U.S. and Italian embassies and a residential complex which is home to U.S. oil workers.


"Six Saudi Arabians and three Chadians are among the people arrested," a source close to the inquiry said.

"The Saudis are jihadists who originally wanted to go to Iraq but ended up coming to Yemen because of the strict measures taken by authorities in their country for monitoring the border with Iraq."

Yemen, ancestral homeland of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and one of the poorest counties on the planet, has battled suspected al-Qaeda militants at Washington's behest since the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

In October 2000, al-Qaeda militants on a small explosives-packed boat attacked American warship the USS Cole off the southern port of Aden, killing 17 American sailors.
 
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