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| Yemen foils plot to assassinate US ambassador |
| 2004-05-16 |
| This is from the Borneo Bulletin. This seems to not constitute ’news’ in the ’mainstream’ press. Yemeni authorities foiled a terrorist plot to assassinate the US 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 USS Cole, the French oil tanker Limburg and an assassination attempt against US Ambassador Edmund Hull. Yemen had never previously made public such a plot. Al-Eleimi didn’t elaborate. But an Interior Ministry official told The Associated Press that the plotters were arrested before they could carry out their plan, in the second half of last year. |
| Posted by:Phil B |