Two days after the authorities reported the death of five al-Qaeda militants in the southern province of Shabwa after a bomb the men were working on exploded by mistake, local officials in Aden confirmed that yet another terror attack against the military apparatus led to the death of one person.
The identity of the victim has to be disclosed.
Witnesses to the explosion told local reporters that a car parked outside the military intelligence department in Sabr detonated on Tuesday, wounding over a dozen passers-by. An official was quoted by the media as saying, “The front of the facade of the two-story building [the military intelligence department] was badly damaged while several nearby buildings also sustained minor damage.”
Preliminary reports have already established the explosion was set off by remote control, in keeping with al-Qaeda Modus Operandi in the region.
While this new attack was not as deadly as it could have been given the reach of the explosion and its location, the incident only underscored the dangers posed by al-Qaeda, as the group clearly demonstrated its terror pull reaches now as far as Aden seaport.
Experts have as early as 2012 warned against a potential Aden terror take-over, stressing al-Qaeda would seek to establish an opening onto the sea in order to sustain its influx of men and weapons across the Arabian Peninsula. Should the terror group ever succeed, al-Qaeda Yemen would have open access to other terror groups in the Horn of Africa.
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