(AKI) - Police have arrested six members of an alleged Al-Qaeda cell that claimed last week's deadly attack against the United States embassy in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, according to a ministry of defence website.Local Al-Qaeda commander, Abu al-Gheith al-Yemeni and head of the alleged cell is among the six people arrested in connection with the attack last Wednesday on the US embassy which killed 19 people, the website said.
The US State Department has said the embassy bombings bore "all the hallmarks" of an Al-Qaeda attack. The attack was the biggest militant operation in Yemen since the attacks on the French tanker Limburg in 2002 and the US warship Cole in 2000. In a message claiming the attack, the cell threatened attacks against Arab embassies in Yemen, the British embassy and British interests in the country.