ISLAM ATTACKS US EMBASSY IN YEMEN

It's what they do.

U.S.'s Yemen Embassy Attacked by Militants; 16 Killed (Update3)     Bloomberg                    

     Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Islamic terrorists targeted the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana'a, blowing up a car outside the entrance to the compound and killing 16 people in the second attack against the mission in six months.    

The death toll included six militants, four civilians and six soldiers guarding the embassy, the state-run Saba news service said, citing the Interior Ministry. The building wasn't damaged and staff in the mission were unhurt, Saba reported.    

``At about 9:15 this morning a car exploded at the main gate of the embassy and then there was a secondary explosion,'' Ryan Gliha, a spokesman for the embassy, said in a phone interview.

A group by the name of Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack and threatened to carry out similar strikes in the Persian Gulf region if al-Qaeda prisoners aren't released by the Yemen, the al-Arabiya news channel said. Osama bin Laden's family originally came from the Yemen, and the country has served as a recruiting ground for al-Qaeda in the past.

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