Yemen Names Suspect in Embassy Attack, al-Dhayany, al-Qaeda’s Driving Instructor
Yemen named Hamza al-Dhayany as a suspect in Tuesday’s mortar attack on the US Embassy in Sana’a. Al-Dhayany was named in July 2007 as the driving instructor for a suicide car bomber who murdered eight Spanish tourists in Marib. The 2007 attack was masterminded by top al-Qaeda leader, Qasim al-Raimi, who earlier this month openly attended a funeral in Sana’a and mingled for several hours with fellow mourners.
SANAA (AFP) — Al-Qaeda was behind a bomb attack that struck a girls’ school near the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa earlier this week, a report said on Saturday citing a security official.
The Al-Thawra newspaper said the official identified the suspect in Tuesday’s attack as Hamza al-Dhayany, who he said was already wanted by the authorities in connection with previous attacks.
“Dhayany launched rockets that were mounted on a car toward the school,” said the official, whom the paper did not identify.
The guy who trained the driver of the Marib attack:
Yemen’s ministry of interior has earlier said investigations into the Marib terrorist attack that killed a number of Spanish tourists and two Yemenis revealed that the suicide bomber terrorist who carried out the operation was Abdeh Mohammed Saeed Ahmed Ruhaiqa from Makal village, Mizhir district of the governorate of Raima.
He was recruited by the terrorist Hamza Ali Saleh al-Dhayani who trained him on driving a taxi and took him after that to Wadi Abida area in Marib where the terrorist cell was present and that planned and prepared implementation of the operation. The cell is composed of terrorists Nasser Abdulkarim al-Wahishi, Qassim Yahya Mahdi al-Raimi, Ali Bin Ali Nasser Douha, Hamza Salem Omar bin Salem al-Qaeeti and Imad Abadeh Masoud al-Jabari al-Waeli who prepared and supervised directly the attack, in addition to a Saudi terrorist Naif Mohammed al-Qahtani. Terrorists Naji Ali Saleh Jardan and Ali bin Ali Nasser Douha from the governorate of Marib have provided shelter and protection for the cell members that implemented the operation and are at the same time the main accused persons of killing the director of criminal investigations in Marib.
