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Yemen is fast becoming a new terrorist training center, according to Australian sources. Eight foreign al Qaeda suspects were arrested for smuggling weapons to Somalia’s Islamic Courts Union. “The men had links to the Islamic Imam university in Sana’a,” the same university John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban,” attended.

Yemeni security forces killed al Qaeda operatives Fawaz al-Rabe’ie and Mohamed Daylami, who were involved in the 2003 attack on the French oil Tanker Limburg. They were among the 23 inmates who escaped from prison last year. Of the 23, “11 of the fugitives have since surrendered to authorities or were captured by police, four […]

“Suicide bombers tried to strike two oil facilities in Yemen with explosives packed cars, but authorities foiled the attacks and at least two bombers were killed.” Four suicide vehicles were used.