Suspected al Qaeda militants sabotaged an oil pipeline in Yemen's southern province of Shabwa Tuesday, a security official said.
Suspected al Qaeda militants sabotaged an oil pipeline in
Yemen
's
southern
province
of
Shabwa
Tuesday, a security official said.
"Unknown militants placed a roadside bomb under the pipeline" in the
town of Al-Shubaykah east of the provincial capital, Ataq, the security
official said, adding that the attack carries the "fingerprints of al
Qaeda."
The oil pipeline attack comes days after intercepted parcel bombs destined for
Chicago
synagogues were traced to
Yemen
, the
ancestral homeland of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
Al Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula
, the
local branch of Bin Laden's network, claimed responsibility for the bomb plot.
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