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SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? A masked gunman assassinated a Yemeni security official who worked for the U.S. Embassy in a drive-by shooting near his home in the capital Sanaa on Thursday, officials said.
Yemeni officials said the killing
bore the hallmarks of an attack by the al-Qaida offshoot in Yemen, but
it was too early to determine whether the group was behind it. The
assassination resembles other attacks recently that have targeted Yemeni
intelligence, military and security officials. Those attacks are
believed to be in retaliation for a military offensive by Yemen's
U.S.-backed government against Yemen-based Al-Qaida in the Arabian
Peninsula (AQAP), which Washington considers the most dangerous offshoot
of the global terror network.
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/yemeni-security-officer-us-embassy-killed-114522824.html
Yemeni officials said the killing
bore the hallmarks of an attack by the al-Qaida offshoot in Yemen, but
it was too early to determine whether the group was behind it. The
assassination resembles other attacks recently that have targeted Yemeni
intelligence, military and security officials. Those attacks are
believed to be in retaliation for a military offensive by Yemen's
U.S.-backed government against Yemen-based Al-Qaida in the Arabian
Peninsula (AQAP), which Washington considers the most dangerous offshoot
of the global terror network.
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/yemeni-security-officer-us-embassy-killed-114522824.html