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Al-Qaeda confirms responsibility for Yemen compound attack
Apr 8, 2008, 16:19 GMT
Yemeni soldiers stand guard at a street of the Yemeni capital Sana\'a, 08 April 2008. Diplomatic sources said that the United States ordered non-emergency employees of its embassy in Sana\'a to leave the country. The U.S. order came a day after the al-Qaeda\'s rocket attack on a housing complex in Sana\'a that houses Westerns including American oil workers. EPA/YAHYA ARHAB
Sana'a - An al-Qaeda arm in Yemen claimed responsibility Tuesday for the mortar attack against a residential compound housing Americans in Sana'a two days ago.
The group, known as 'Yemen Soldiers Brigade,' said in a statement posted on an Islamic web site that the attack was carried out 'to avenge our bother Mulla Dadallah.'
Mulla Dadallah, an Afghan Taliban leader, was killed in a US air strike in the southern Afghan region of Helmand in May 2007.
'A group of the Khaled Ibn al-Walid brigade attacked late on Sunday April 6, 2008 a housing compound for foreign nationals and Americans in Haddah of Sana'a province with three mortar shells,' said the statement.
The statement, whose authenticity could not be verified, was posted on the al-Ekhlaas web site that regularly disseminates al- Qaeda statements.
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