Al-Qaeda claimed on Friday a deadly attack on Yemeni defense ministry that killed 52 people a day earlier.
Al-Qaeda claimed on Friday a deadly attack on Yemeni defense ministry that killed 52 people a day earlier.
In a statement published on the Internet by its media arm, al-Qaeda said the defense ministry complex was "stormed and attacked on Thursday... after the mujahedeen (holy fighters) proved that it acco
mmodates drone control rooms and American experts.”
"As part of a policy to target drone control rooms, the mujahedeen have dealt a heavy blow to one" in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, added the statement by the Al-Malahem foundation.
"Such security headquarters in partnership with the Americans in their war on these Muslim people are a justified target wherever they may be," warned AQAP, classified by the United States as Al-Qaeda's deadliest branch.
Fifty-two people were killed on Thursday when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into the defense ministry complex in Sanaa and opened the way for an armed assault.
Two doctors from Germany, two from Vietnam and another from Yemen were killed, as well two female nurses from the Philippines and one from India, said Yemen's official Saba news agency.
