Qaeda-affiliate claims responsibility for US embassy attack in Yemen
Security barriers block access to the US embassy in Sanaa. (file photo)
Sun Sep 28, 2014 12:0AM GMT
An al-Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for a rocket attack
against the United States embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
Several hours after the Saturday attack, Ansar al-Sharia claimed
responsibility for it on social networks, saying it was in response to a US
terror drone strike on Friday.
"Ansar al-Sharia have targeted the US embassy in Sanaa with a
(shoulder-launched) LAW rocket," the group said.
The group also said several were injured and a vehicle was damaged in the
attack which incorporated a M72 light anti-tank weapon, according to police.
The attack, which was carried out by a group of armed militants, wounded at
least two guards outside the embassy, police said.
The guards were members of the Yemeni special police forces who were tasked
with protecting the heavily fortified embassy.
The rocket reportedly landed some 200 meters away from the site.
Meanwhile, the US embassy in Sanaa said it had no reason to believe it
was the target of the attack.
Report said on Friday that a US assassination drone killed at least two and
wounded two others in the northern province of al-Jawf.
This is the first time the embassy has come under attack.
In one similar incident back in 2008, 18 people were killed and 16 were
injured.
In an unprecedented move in August 2013, the US closed several of its
embassies on three continents after intercepted communications pointed to a
possible al-Qaeda terrorist plot.
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