யேமனில் 22 இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் கைது

யேமனில் ஏடன் நகரத்தை தாக்கும் வண்ணம் திட்டமிட்டிருந்த அல்குவேதா இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் 22 பேரை யேமன் அரசாங்கம் கைது செய்திருக்கிறது.

கார்களில் வெடிகுண்டுகளை நிரப்பி பொதுமக்கள் இருக்கும் இடங்களில் நிறுத்தி வெடிக்க வைக்க திட்டமிட்டிருந்த இவர்களை யேமன் அரசாங்கம் கைது செய்துள்ளது பாராட்டப்பட தக்கதாகும்.


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22 militants held in Al Qaida terror plot
AP
Published: August 19, 2007, 00:22

Sana'a: Authorities have uncovered multiple Al Qaida plots targeting government institutions in the port city of Aden, a security official said on Saturday.

Twenty-two alleged militants were arrested in connection with the plots including three Al Qaida masterminds, said the official. Documents including forged passports and visas were found with the detainees, who were operating in two groups, he said.

One of the groups allegedly was planning to target government facilities and blow up cars containing explosives using remote control, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.

The other group was planning to carry out suicide attacks, storm prisons and launch a wave of kidnappings, according to the official.



Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told newspapers on Thursday that his government is cracking down on militants, but his comments fell short of claiming that terrorism is being eliminated.

Sleeper cells

"Nobody can claim that we have controlled terrorism, but we are alert and we follow up," Saleh told Al Wasat, an independent newspaper.

"There are sleeper cells, which sometimes wake up, but our security apparatus is always alert and never rests."

The arrests came less than a week after Yemeni authorities announced the arrests of nine suspects in connection with the early July suicide attack on a Spanish tour group.

Ten people were killed when a suicide bomber ploughed his explosives-laden car into the tour group's convoy at an ancient temple in Marib.

Al Qaida has an active presence in Yemen, the ancestral home of Osama Bin Laden, despite government efforts to fight the terror network.

Al Qaida 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.