December 03, 2008
Yemeni Intelligence Services Conduct Terror Attacks for Political Ends
Yemen's security forces have repeatedly orchestrated terror attacks within Yemen in order to manipulate US and international perceptions, the most wanted fugitive in September's terror attack on the US Embassy in Sana'a said in an interview Tuesday.
Hamza Ali Saleh al Dhayani (also Aldhaini, al Dhajani) is a prime suspect in the Sept. 17 suicide attack on the US Embassy that killed 16, including an American citizen. Yemen also named al Dhayani as a suspect in March's mortar attack on the US Embassy.
Officials earlier announced Dhayani was the recruiter and driving instructor for the suicide car bomber who murdered eight elderly Spanish tourists in Mareb in July 2007. Dhayani is Mareb under the protection of Jahm tribe and granted the interview to Mareb Press after taking several security precautions.
"I am ready to prove the reality that some attacks were planned in co-ordination and agreement of the Political Security and its agents to gain foreign support and to confirm to America that they (the Yemeni state) launch war against terrorism," Dhayani said in the explosive interview.
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