Two Yemenis arrested over US warship explosion
Yemen-USA, Politics, 11/10/2000

Yemen announced on Thursday that American experts working in a program to eliminate mines in Yemen left the country after they had received threats.

The Yemeni weekly the " al-Wahdawi" said that a well-informed Yemeni source said that the Yemeni experts left the country after they had received threats. A matter which forced them to close their office and to go to Bahrain and to reduce their representation to one person. The weekly explained that the American experts are working in the national technical unity to eliminate the land- mines. This unit is working to eliminate some 200,000 land mines in Yemen.

An official at the US embassy in Yemen stressed that what was said about the departure of the experts was true but no more details were given about this matter.

Meantime, one US diplomat said that the departure of the US experts comes in the course of security measures in the region that followed the explosion in the US warship " USS Cole."

On the other hand, the Yemeni authorities arrested two persons suspected to be directly involved in the explosion of the US warship.

NBC reported that one of the suspects had a main role in the attack and he gave the investigators details on how it was planned for the explosion which took place on October 12 in Aden. He added that the explosion was planned since more than one year.

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