Pipelines Mortared in al-Bouriqa
Update: “Near” the pipeline, missed again according to al-Motamar
The oil pipelines in al-Buriqa zone, Aden, were hit by three missiles by unknown people.
Aden refinement is located in al-Buriqa Zone.
A security source told Mareb Press that there are no casualties. The source added tha the missiles targeted the oil pipelines.
The security authorities are still investigating the incident, the source added.
Some sources said that AlQaeda organization may be behind the attack.
The gang that couldn’t shoot straight.What is this, the fifth “al-Qaeda” mortar attack that missed its target?
DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a mortar attack on a refinery in Yemen, which officials said did not cause any damage, according to an Internet statement.
Three blasts were heard on Friday at the refinery in the southern port city of Aden, officials said.
“Al Qaeda Organisation in the Arabian Peninsula — Yemen Soldiers Brigades — carried out the blessed operation with three mortar shells … on the refinery used by Yemen’s despot to supply fuel to the Crusaders (Western states) in their war against Islam,” the group said on an Islamist website.
The group, which has vowed to win the freedom of jailed comrades, has claimed responsibility for several such attacks in recent months, including a shelling in March near the U.S. embassy which injured 13 schoolgirls and five Yemeni soldiers.
The refinery attack coincided with a shooting spree by a lone gunman who killed at least seven people at a mosque in northern Yemen. Officials said that was the result of a feud over land in the impoverished Arab state where many ordinary citizens are armed.
Besides militant attacks, Yemen has faced unrest over unemployment and rising prices in the south and fighting between government forces and Shi’ite Muslim rebels in the north.
Yemen, Osama bin Laden’s ancestral home, joined the U.S. “war on terror” after the September 11, 2001, attacks. It has jailed dozens of militants in connections with bombings of Western targets and clashes with the authorities.
Arrests in Aden
Sana’a, May 31, 2008 (YemenOnline)- Al-Qaeda affiliated group “Yemen Soldier Brigades” claimed responsibility for the attack that targeted oil refinery in al-Bureiqa town in the southern city of Aden on Friday.
In a statement posted on an al-Qaeda website “al-Ikhlas network’ the group said that “the squad of al-Qa’aqa’a al-Tamimi, may Allah be happy with him, attacked the oil refinery in the city of Aden with three mortar rounds as Yemen’s “despot” used this installation to provided Christians with fuel in their war against Islam.”
Official media quoted security sources as saying that Aden oil refineries were attacked by three mortar rounds on Friday afternoon.
Security sources said that just two sonic bombs went off and that the installation was not damaged.
Following the attack security forces broke into homes of several al-Qaeda elements who were previously released from jails in Aden.
Al-Qaeda organization called its loyalists in Yemen last week to initiate “tough and painful” strikes against foreign interests mainly those of the U.S.
“We hope from our brothers in Yemen to take us back to the old days of attacking USS Cole and French Limburg as such operations have and effect on the people nowadays,” said a statement posted last week in a website run by al-Qaeda.
The statement indicated that al-Qaeda is currently in need for such operations to rectify its image that has been tarnished.
The statement also advised al-Qaeda’s followers in Yemen to focus, for the time being, on American targets.
The statement added that targeting Yemeni soldiers is useless indicating that there is a difference between the troops in Iraq and Yemen as Iraqi troops are a medium in the hands of the Christians. “Targeting a home belonging to “Ali Saleh” (Yemen’s President) or targeting a soldier in a Yemeni village is not useful nowadays,” the statement added.
A soldier was killed in an al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. Embassy compound on March 18, 2008. The presidential compound was also targeted in May 1st, 2008 Both attacks were claimed by al-Qaeda-affiliated group “Yemen Soldier Brigades”.
The attack comes one day after security authorities said they arrested an 11- al-Qaeda cell in the capital Sana’a.
