Security services raid on terrorist cell
The Source: MUKALLA/hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 09/07/2010
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The Ministry of Interior has revealed that security services had raided a house where elements of an al-Qaeda cell were hiding in Fuh, located to the west of the city of Mukalla in Hadramout.
The security personnel found an explosive belt ready for use, grenades, a laptop, a number of SIM cards, video tapes, and scraps of paper which the terrorist elements did not manage to burn.
The Ministry said that four armed crews surrounded a house where some al-Qaeda elements were hiding in Fuh area in Mukalla.
These al-Qaeda elements included a Saudi national and they were in a house belonging to an al-Qaeda member, 40.The elements of al-Qaeda refused to surrender and started shooting and throwing grenades at the security forces that were besieging the house. Two of the security personnel were killed and two terrorist elements were wounded.The security forces arrested these two, while two other terrorists managed to escape.The two terrorist elements who escaped included the Saudi.The security forces are currently pursuing these escapees. The Ministry of Interior confirmed that it will pursue the terrorist elements of al-Qaeda, and that it will lie in wait for them and foil all terrorist plots of al-Qaeda and its elements which target Yemen and its supreme interests.
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