Yemen Jihad Org Claims Ineffectual Mukalla Attack
Backdated, 8/10/08 News Yemen
SANA’A, NewsYemen
The al-Qaeda Jihad Organization in the Arab Peninsula claimed its responsibility for attacking police patrol in Mukalla last Thursday that did not result in any material losses or human casualties.
In a statement posted on Islamic website, alekhlaas.net, al-Qaeda said this operation was one of a series to get imprisoned militants released. “The al-Qaeda Jihad in the Arab Peninsula, Yemen’s Soldiers Brigade, has carried out this holy operation, throwing a grenade to a police patrol under a bridge linking Mukalla to al-Sharj of Hadramout in solidarity with our brothers who are in custody of autocrats” said the statement.
An official source in the local authority of Mukalla said last Thursday that a group of men boarding a car threw a grenade to police patrol guarding a bridge at Banks Zone in Mukalla, but no casualties reported.
The attack came after al-Qaeda detainees in al-Mansoura prison in Aden have allegedly sent a letter to leaders of al-Qaeda in Yemen Nasser al-Wahaishi and Hamza al-Qaiti asking for.
Al-Qaeda in Yemen has claimed responsibility for most of terror operations occurred in the country since the begging of 2008.
