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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Muslims attack US embassy in Yemen
No need to read below the headline to know who dun it ..
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16 dead in US embassy attack in Yemen
Islamist militants have attacked the US embassy in the Yemeni capital
Sanaa with a car bomb and rockets,
causing "multiple casualties," an embassy spokesman said.
Sixteen people, including six soldiers, six militants and four bystanders, were killed in the twin car bombing,
the interior ministry said.
A US embassy spokesman, Ryan Gliha, says no embassy staff have been hurt.
"Most of us that were here during that time were inside did not have any visual response or any visual
information from the attack however we all felt the primary explosion and secondary explosions," he said.
"They did seem to shake the ground."
Witnesses said gunmen raked the Yemeni police detachment outside the heavily fortified embassy compound
before a suicide bomber blew up a car right by the entrance, setting off a fire.
They spoke of a series of explosions as the embassy came under rocket as well as small arms fire, in what
is the second attack on the US mission this year.
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Full article at "ABC"