Two gunmen exchanged fire with police near the US Embassy in Yemen today. Surprise, surprise, that Yemen is the new home of two freshly minted Gitmo grads. It's not clear who's responsible for what appears to have been an aborted terrorist attack, but I have a sneaky suspicion that the guy in the picture may have something to do with it.
It wasn't entirely unexpected, Yahoo says:
Earlier, a Yemeni security official said the U.S. Embassy received a telephone call and an e-mail early Monday saying the U.S. and Russian embassies would be targeted by al-Qaida within a few hours.
The U.S. Embassy confirmed receiving a threat about a potential attack on its compound, and security measures were heightened in the capital, San'a. Attempts to contact the Russian Embassy were not successful.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Ryan Gliha said earlier in the day that the embassy was urging American citizens to exercise caution in Yemen. He said the embassy received a threat "regarding a possible attack that could take place in the foreseeable future" but gave no further details.
Wow, I'm so reassured that Gitmo's closing. Especially knowing this:
Two Saudis formerly jailed at the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have joined Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch, and authorities here worry that two other ex-Guantánamo inmates may have strayed back to militancy because they have recently disappeared from their homes.
The revelations illustrate the difficulties faced both by President Obama, who has pledged to shutter the facility for terror suspects, and the Saudi government, which is trying to reform its own radical jihadis, many of whom were imprisoned at Guantánamo before being released back to the kingdom.
The two Saudis working with Al Qaeda in Yemen, in addition to the two missing ex-Guantánamo detainees, participated in a Saudi rehabilitation program to counter violent ideology and reintegrate militants into society, says Gen. Mansour al-Turki, the Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman.
Dumb terrorists... don't they know that George Bush was the biggest threat to US national security?
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