http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=13342005 Terrorist threat closes UK's embassy in Yemen FOREIGN STAFF BRITAIN closed its embassy in Yemen yesterday due to security concerns and warned that "terrorists" were in the final stages of planning attacks against Western targets in the Arab state. "The British embassy will be closed on 5 January in response to specific security concerns," an embassy advisory said, but did not elaborate. "As at 30 December, there is specific information that terrorists are in the final stages of planning attacks against British targets and other Western targets in Yemen," it said. It advised British citizens to be particularly vigilant in places frequented by foreigners such as hotels. British diplomats and Yemeni officials were not immediately available for comment. In 2003 Yemen said it had foiled planned attacks on US and British embassies. The impoverished country, the ancestral home of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has co-operated closely with the US-led "war on terror" and has arrested hundreds of al-Qaeda suspects since the 11 September, 2001 attacks. Last September, Yemen sentenced two al-Qaeda militants to death for the 2000 bombing of the US destroyer Cole. A month earlier, five al-Qaeda supporters were jailed for the 2002 bombing of a French supertanker and another militant was sentenced to death for planning to kill the US ambassador. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
