From Fox News: A masked gunman assassinated a Yemeni security official at the U.S.
Embassy in a drive-by shooting in the capital Sanaa on Thursday,
officials said.
The Yemeni officials said the killing bore the hallmarks of an Al
Qaeda attack, but it was too early to determine if the group was behind
it. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not
authorized to speak to the media.
The assassination resembles other attacks targeting Yemeni
intelligence, military and security officials in retaliation for a wide
military offensive by Yemen's U.S.-backed government against Al Qaeda's
branch in the country.
Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which Washington
considers the most dangerous offshoot of the terror network, had taken
advantage of a security and political vacuum created by last year Arab
Spring-inspired uprising and seized territories and cities in the south.
The government-led offensive has pushed the militants out to
mountainous areas from where they have been staging suicide attacks and
assassinations inside cities.
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