"Al-Qaida in Yemen" Claims Series of Attacks on Western Targets
Written by NEFA
April 9, 2008
NEFA
The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a copy of a purported communiqué from the “Jund al-Yaman Brigades” of the “Al-Qaidat ul-Jihad Organization in the Arabian Peninsula” dated April 7, 2008. The statement claimed credit for several recent terrorist attacks in Yemen, including the April 6 mortar shelling of foreign housing compounds in the al-Hadda neighborhood of Sana’a—which, according to the “Jund al-Yaman Brigades”, was carried out “in revenge” for slain Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah.
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