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| Interior Min: Yemen Foiled ’03 Plot To Kill US Ambassador |
| 2004-05-12 |
| Yemeni authorities foiled a terrorist plot to assassinate the U.S. ambassador in San’a last year, Yemen’s interior minister said Wednesday. Interior Minister Rashad al-Eleimi, addressing parliament, said that 195 terrorist suspects are in Yemeni custody for the bombing of the USS Cole, the French oil tanker Limburg and an assassination attempt against U.S. Ambassador Edmund Hull. Yemen had never previously made public such a plot. Al-Eleimi didn’t elaborate. But an Interior Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that the plotters were arrested before they could carry out their plan, in the second half of last year. He gave no further details. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in San’a referred all questions about the alleged plot to the Yemeni government. Al-Eleimi said 43 of the terrorist suspects have been referred to the state prosecutor for possible charges. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed when the USS Cole was bombed in October 2000 as it refueled in the southern port city of Aden. The bombing was blamed on the al-Qaida terror network. In 2002, one Bulgarian crewman was killed in a suicide attack by a small boat on the Limburg off the Yemeni coast, spilling 90,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Aden. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #1 yeah, yeah, yeah - and I personally foiled a plot by me to kill Assad...without ever leaving my bed.. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-12 9:53:29 PM |