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| What's behind frequent terrorist attacks in Yemen? |
| 2009-03-21 |
| (Xinhua) -- Two latest terrorist attacks on foreign tourists in Yemen not only reminded people of the series of attacks on foreign targets in the country since 2000 when the USS Cole was bombed in the port of Aden, but also prompted people to ask why terrorism lingers in the non-focal Middle East state. Couldn't have anything to do with religion, could it? Four South Korean tourists were killed in a suicide blast on Sunday when they were visiting an ancient town in southern Yemen's Hadramawt province. Three days later, vehicles carrying a South Korean delegation investigating the case were attacked on their way to the airport in the capital, but no one was hurt. The locals really don't like having foreigners around, do they? Still clear are the scenes in July 2007 when a suicide car bomb killed seven Spanish tourists in the eastern Marib province; in January 2008 when attackers killed four in a shooting on a Belgian tourist group in Hadramawt province, and in September when a radical group calling itself the Islamic Jihad in Yemen attacked the heavily fortified U.S. embassy in Yemen, killing 17 people, including civilians. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I thought Osama sent one of his wives and chilluns back to her clan when he went to Afghanistan. What ever happened to this branch of AQ? |
| Posted by: Thealing Borgia122 2009-03-21 12:23 |
| #1 yeah i wonnder what is behind it |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-03-21 10:36 |