Editing Terrorism in Yemen (section)

=={{anchor|Attacks against civilian targets}}Attacks on civilian targets==
===1992 Aden hotel bombings===
{{Main|1992 Aden hotel bombings}}

===Limburg attack===
{{Main|Limburg attack}}
In October 2002, near the port of [[Mukalla]], [[suicide bombers]] rammed an explosive-laden boat into the ''[[Limburg (tanker)|Limburg]]'', a French oil tanker, killing a Bulgarian crew member and spilling {{convert|90000|oilbbl|m3}} of oil into the [[Gulf of Aden]]. Saudi born [[Abdulraheem al-Nashiri]], prime suspect of the USS Cole bombing, paid $40,000 to fund the Limburg attack. With that money, the former Al Qaida leader [[Abu Ali al-Harithi]] bought the explosives and transported them from his house in [[Shabwah Governorate|Shabwa]] to [[Mukalla]] in [[Hadramut]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Rupert|last1=Herbert-Burns|first2=Sam|last2=Bateman|first3=Peter|last3=Lehr|title=Lloyd's MIU handbook of maritime security|date=September 2008|publisher=CRC Press|location=Boca Raton|isbn=9781420054804|page=60|access-date=September 27, 2016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8mFdMbhkiWEC&q=limburg+Abdulraheem+al-Nashiri|archive-date=February 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230217153404/https://books.google.com/books?id=8mFdMbhkiWEC&q=limburg+Abdulraheem+al-Nashiri|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Civil Aviation, Meteorological Authority and helicopter attacks===
On November 3, 2002, there was an attack on a helicopter carrying [[Hunt Oil Co.]] Employees shortly after taking off from [[Sana'a]]. A missile and a machine gun were fired at the helicopter injuring two American citizens.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Blau|first1=Justine|title=Al Qaeda Suspect Arrested In Yemen|date=April 5, 2003 |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-qaeda-suspect-arrested-in-yemen/|work=CBS News|access-date=September 27, 2016|archive-date=October 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001173850/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-qaeda-suspect-arrested-in-yemen/|url-status=live}}</ref> One person was jailed for the helicopter attack as well as for bombing the Civil Aviation and Meteorological Authority building in Sana'a.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yemen raises al-Qaeda sentences|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4238487.stm|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|access-date=September 27, 2016|date=February 5, 2005|archive-date=February 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230217153359/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4238487.stm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Hull|first1=Edmund J|title=High-Value Target: Countering al Qaeda in Yemen|date=2011|publisher=Potomac Books, Inc|location=Washington DC|isbn=9781597976794|page=34|edition=illustrated|access-date=September 27, 2016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icRXzZIVhKAC&q=meteorological+authority|archive-date=February 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230217153346/https://books.google.com/books?id=icRXzZIVhKAC&q=meteorological+authority|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Jibla hospital===
On December 30, 2002, a suspected Islamic [[fundamentalist]] killed three US workers and wounded one in a hospital in [[Jibla, Yemen|Jibla]] with a semi-automatic [[rifle]]. Two men were eventually convicted and executed for the attack - the gunman [[Abid Abdulrazzaq Al-Kamil]], and the 'mastermind' [[Ali Ahmed Mohamed al-Jarallah]], who had also been convicted of the 2002 murder of Yemeni politician [[Jarallah Omar]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.domini.org/openbook/yem20021230.htm |title=Three Baptist Hospital Staff Killed in Yemen |publisher=Domini.org |access-date=April 4, 2010 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235719/http://www.domini.org/openbook/yem20021230.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Firing squad executes Yemeni for killings of Baptist workers|url=http://www.tciarchive.org/1808.article|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011203342/http://www.tciarchive.org/1808.article|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 11, 2016|website=The Christian Index|access-date=September 28, 2016}}</ref>

===Al-Salem letter threats===
Jews in Yemen reportedly fled their homes due to threats from Muslim extremists. [[Al-Qaeda]] members sent letters to 45 Jews living in al-Salem (near Sana'a) on January 19, 2007, accusing them of involvement in an "international Zionist conspiracy". The Jewish community sent a complaint to President [[Ali Abdullah Saleh]] and temporarily moved to a hotel near Sana'a. The Yemeni government promised to protect their homes and reassured them that they could return.<ref name=SALEMTHREAT>{{cite web|title=News Brief|date=January 23, 2007 |url=http://www.jta.org/2007/01/23/archive/jews-in-yemen-reportedly-fled-their-homes-due|publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|access-date=September 28, 2016|archive-date=October 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002043056/http://www.jta.org/2007/01/23/archive/jews-in-yemen-reportedly-fled-their-homes-due|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Yemenite Jews under pressure from Muslim extremists|url=http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/yemenite-jews-under-pressure-from-muslim-extremists|website=World Jewish Congress|date=January 23, 2007|access-date=September 28, 2016|archive-date=October 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003234709/http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/yemenite-jews-under-pressure-from-muslim-extremists|url-status=live}}</ref>

===US Embassy===
{{Main|2008 attack on the American Embassy in Yemen}}
On September 17, 2008, Al-Qaeda militants attacked the US Embassy in [[Sana'a]]. 20 people were killed, including six militants, six policemen and seven civilians. One American was also among those killed.

===Attacks on tourists===
{{see also|2007 attack on tourists in Yemen|2008 attack on tourists in Yemen|2009 Yemeni tourist attacks}}
A suicide bomber killed eight Spanish tourists and their two Yemeni drivers in [[Ma'rib]] on July 2, 2007. On January 18, 2008, Al-Qaeda militants opened fire on a convoy of tourists in [[Hadhramaut]], killing two Belgian tourists, two Yemenis, the tourists' driver and their guide. In March 2009, four South Korean tourists and their local Yemeni guide were killed. Two attackers also died.

===UAE-run secret prisons===
In the name of punishment, Yemenis are tortured at the hands of Houthis and Saudi Arabia-led military. According to a report published by the [[Associated Press]], the [[United Arab Emirates]] runs a network of secret prisons across southern Yemen, where several hundreds of Yemenis on suspicion of being al-Qaida or Islamic State militants are held.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.apnews.com/e32442a4c8c24acd9d362c433d5cd10e|title=Ex-inmates: Torture rife in prisons run by Yemen rebels|date=December 7, 2018 |publisher=Associated Press|access-date=December 7, 2018|archive-date=January 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109111033/https://www.apnews.com/e32442a4c8c24acd9d362c433d5cd10e|url-status=live}}</ref>

According to former detainees, families of prisoners, civil rights lawyers and Yemeni military officials, there are at least 18 lock-ups hidden away in military bases, air and seaports, the basements of private villas and even a nightclub. Prisoners are held without any charges, with the Yemeni government having no control over these UAE-run prisons.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/b2a5ecfd1adb442a86df5bd05bc6599e|title=Inside Yemen's secret prisons: 'We could hear the screams'|publisher=Associated Press|access-date=June 22, 2017|archive-date=January 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109111017/https://apnews.com/b2a5ecfd1adb442a86df5bd05bc6599e|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Beir Ahmed]] prison in the southern city of [[Aden]] is one such prison, where detainees are tortured and sexually assaulted by the UAE officers. Prisoners are electrocuted by their genitals and rocks are hung from their testicles. They are also sexually violated with wooden and steel poles. In March 2018, Emirati officers blind-folded and handcuffed all the detainees of Beir Ahmed prison and made them stand under the sun until noon. The detainees were asked to undress and lie down with their legs spread open. The Emirati forces then touched their genitals and probed their rectums in search of mobile phones.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/7994b4508e9c4a5eaf8a1cca9f20322f|title=Detainees held without charges decry Emiratis' sexual abuses|publisher=Associated Press|access-date=June 20, 2018|archive-date=January 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106054905/https://apnews.com/7994b4508e9c4a5eaf8a1cca9f20322f|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Bin Salman mosque bombing===
The Bin Salman mosque was bombed on May 2, 2008, at the Bin Salman Mosque in [[Sa'dah]], and killed 15 and injured 55. Local officials believed the bomb was hidden in a car or a motorcycle.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news| url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7379929.stm | title= Deadly blast strikes Yemen mosque | work =BBC News| date= May 2, 2008 |accessdate = May 23, 2008 }}</ref>

Some witnesses said the target may have been the mosque's [[imam]], or prayer leader, an army officer who adheres to the [[Salafi movement|Salafi]] school of [[Sunni Islam]]. Witnesses said he was not hurt. Military personnel are among those who usually pray at the Bin Salman mosque, which like others in Yemen caters for both the majority Sunni community and [[Shia Islam|Shia]] [[Zaidiyyah|Zaidis]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008%2F05%2F02%2F49258.html|title=Bomb attack on Yemen mosque kills 15|date=May 2, 2008|website=Al Arabiya English}}</ref>

===Wadi Dawan attack===
On January 18, 2008, there was an [[2008 Wadi Dawan ambush|ambush attack]] on [[Belgium|Belgian]] tourists traveling in a convoy through [[Hadhramaut Governorate|Hadhramaut]] in the [[Wadi Dawan]] desert valley  A convoy of four jeeps carrying 15 tourists to [[Shibam]] was ambushed by gunmen in a hidden pickup truck.<ref name=bbc>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7196186.stm BBC NEWS - Al-Qaeda attack Belgian Tourists]</ref> Two Belgian women, Claudine Van Caillie, of [[Bruges]], 63, and Katrine Glorie, from [[East Flanders]], 54, as well as two Yemenis, a driver and a guide, were killed; another man was also heavily wounded, several others suffered minor wounds.<ref name="soir_belgestues">{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.lesoir.be/actualite/monde/deux-touristes-belges-tues-au-2008-01-18-572164.shtml Deux Belges tuées au Yémen], ''[[Le Soir]]'', January 18, 2008.</ref> The tourists were repatriated to Belgium on January 19, except the injured man, who remained in [[Sana'a|Sanaa]].<ref name="soir_rapatries">{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.lesoir.be/actualite/monde/yemen-les-touristes-belges-2008-01-19-572289.shtml Yémen: les touristes belges rapatriés], ''Le Soir'', January 19, 2008.</ref>

In the wake of the attack, [[Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs]], [[Karel De Gucht]] originally rejected that [[Al-Qaeda]] might be responsible, explaining that although the possibility could be avoided, internecine disputes and latent Islamism also to be taken into account.<ref name="soir_belgestues"/> A number of arrests were made on January 21.<ref name="soir_arrestations">{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.lesoir.be/actualite/monde/yemen-arrestation-des-auteurs-2008-01-21-572517.shtml Plusieurs suspects arrêtés au Yémen], ''Le Soir'', January 21, 2008.</ref> [[President of the European Council]] [[Slovenia]] released a statement saying "The EU Presidency strongly condemns all forms of violence and calls on the  government of Yemen to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice."<ref>[http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=105884&d=20&m=1&y=2008 Belgian Tourists Return Home From Yemen Ordeal], ''[[ArabNews]]'', January 20, 2008.</ref>