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Jihad in Yemen:

Yemeni temple bombing kills 7 Spaniards
by AHMED Al-HAJJ,

SAN'A, Yemen - An al-Qaida suicide bomber drove into a convoy of Spanish tourists visiting an ancient Yemeni temple, officials said, killing seven Spaniards and two Yemenis less than two weeks after a U.S. terror warning about the area.

Witnesses said the bomber drove a car through the gate of the temple compound, and the vehicle exploded near the structure, which was built about 3,000 years ago and dedicated to the Queen of Sheba.

Spain's foreign minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, said seven dead and five wounded — one seriously — were Spaniards when the bomber drove into the middle of the Spanish convoy.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack in the central Marib province, about 85 miles east of the capital San'a, but authorities linked the suicide bomber to al-Qaida. Police said they received information last month about a possible al-Qaida attack.

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Six Spaniards, two Yemeni dead in car bomb blast in Yemen

Madrid/Sana'a, Yemen - Six Spanish tourists and two Yemenis were killed and eight others injured in an al-Qaeda suicide bomb attack on a tourist convoy near an archaeological site in north- central Yemen Monday, the Spanish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The injured included six Spanish tourists and two Yemenis, according to sources in Yemen while Spanish sources spoke of seven injured Spaniards.

'Initial information show that the al-Qaeda organisation was behind this cowardly terrorist attack,' a statement by the Yemeni Interior Ministry added.

The two Yemeni victims were a tour guide and a driver. The injured have been airlifted to a hospital in Sana'a for treatment.

Meanwhile, the Spanish Foreign Ministry in Madrid confirmed the deaths of the seven Spaniards saying six other Spaniards had been injured.

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