Sanaa admits collaboration with Washington in assassinating al-Harirthi
Yemen-USA, Politics, 11/20/2002

The Yemeni minister of the interior lt. Gen. Rashad al-Oleimi yesterday announced that the missile attacks launched by a pilot-less American plane against a car which was carrying six members of supposed al-Qaida organization, especially among them Abu Ali al-Harithi, to the east of Yemen by the beginning of November, was implemented in collaboration between Yemen and the USA.

Al-Oleimi added that what made this attack a success was the integrated use of the joint US- Yemeni capabilities.

On the other hand, eye witnesses said that the house of an officer in the Yemeni intelligence in Sanaa was attacked by bombs but no one was hurt. Witnesses said that one unidentified person threw a bomb at the house of Maj. Gen. Ahmad Nasser, the official in the central department of the Yemeni political security.

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