Yemeni authorities have arrested 19 people suspected of being connected to al Qaeda and having links to the attack on the heavily fortified US embassy in Sanaa, Al-Arabiya television said today.
Two suicide car bombs set off a series of explosions outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen on Wednesday, killing 16 people including six attackers. No US citizens were hurt.
A group calling itself Islamic Jihad in Yemen, which is unrelated to the Palestinian group with a similar name, claimed responsibility and threatened attacks on other embassies including those of Britain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
The US State Department said the bombings bore "all the hallmarks" of an al-Qaeda attack but the United States had not yet concluded who was to blame.
Reuters