Police Station Targeted in Sayoun for Second Time, Two Dead
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Sana’a, Yemen - A powerful car bomb tore through a police compound in south-eastern Yemen Friday, leaving at least two people dead and eight injured, police and witnesses said. The bombing destroyed the main police centre in Sayoun city of Hadharmout province, 900 kilometres south-east of the capital Sana’a, witnesses said. Police sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that a suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden car into the building early in the morning. Medics said eight people were injured in the explosion.
The same police station was targeted April 22 with three bombs placed along the perimeter walls in the early morning. There were no injuries in that attack. In June, authorities arrested “most wanted” al-Qaeda Haithem bin Saad in Hadramout.
So what is it? Not reprisal for the arrest, since the first attack occurred months before. Not “battle hardened Iraq returnees” trying to take down Saleh, no.
Its some localized issue, probably revenge or a form of negotiation that is related to someone at the police station, which BTW houses a variety of government offices, or did anyway. Its possible the bomber was expecting to get away or was one of these 19 year old brainwashed kids who died to exert pressure on the regime for a specific demand by one of the senior operatives.
Update: Same pattern as the oil installations, did the gunfire explode this car too?
SANA’A, July 25 (Saba)- Hadramout governor Saleh al-Khanbashi described the attack which targeted on Friday a camp of the Central Security in Sayo’un city as a criminal terrorist act, threatening those who are behind this coward act that they will be tracked down and brought to justice.
In a statement to Saba, al-Khanbashi noted that security systems recognized, through the investigations in the attack during the past few hours, identity of the attacker but refused to mention his name to secure privacy of investigations.
He added that the executor of the attack was driving a booby-trapped car model KIA 2003, white colored, at high speed towards the camp gates the thing which made the guard start fire on him.
Update 2: Hadramout governor blames al-Qaeda
Al-Qaida behind the Suicide Car Bomb in Yemen” governor of Hadramout says
YemenOnline-July 26,2008- The governor of Hadramout governorate Salim Al- Kunbshi declared that all evidence indicates the involvement of Al Qaeda . Terrorists of Al-Qaida behind the incident which resulted in the death of Nabil Muthanna Jaita the soldier who has killed at the incident and wounding another 11 soldiers and seven women, Al-Kunbshi explained in a statement to the official news site 26 Spettmber. the investigations conducted on the incident concluded that the style and method of attack, blast, which targeted a camp of the Central Security Forces and public security as well as materials used in the bombing, mechanisms and technical implementation process similar to the terrorist operations previously carried out by elements of Al Qaeda, the investigations revealed important information on the operation mastermind, who bought them the car had been booby-trapping and executed by the terrorist attack, in addition to other information is being verified now” the governor said.On the other hand ,Al- Qaeda did not declare its responsibility so far as usual.
