New al-Qeada cell broken, weapons' store discovered

A new group suspected of affiliated to al-Qaeda was detained in al-Qia'an in Hadramout province in the past two days, said an official security source today (Saturday) August 30.

The source added that a store containing big quantities of weapons, shells, explosives and ammunition was also discovered hiden on top of a hill in al-Qia'an area of Thamoud district located in the middle of Hadramout province south east of Yemen.

The security source said that 21 big boxes full with weapons and explosives including RBG missiles and severe explosives were found in the hidden store.
"After examining the shells it was found that they were of the same sort of shells that were used in the suicide attack launched at the central security complex in Sayoun  on July 25 and were the same kind of explosives found in the hide out of Tarim cell.

The security authorities had announced last Thursday detaining 30 al-Qaeda suspects in Hadramout and four others in Abyan province last week.

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