Al-Qaeda claims attack on Yemen refinery

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

SANAA (AFP) — Al-Qaeda's wing in Yemen has claimed responsibility for an attack it said targeted a refinery in the southern city of Aden, according to an Internet statement posted on Sunday.

The Jund al-Yemen Brigades on Friday fired three rockets at the Aden refinery "used by the tyrant (regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh) to supply fuel to the crusaders in their war on Islam," said the statement posted on an Islamist militant website.

The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified, but the group calling itself Jund al-Yemen Brigades has taken credit for other recent attacks against oil targets and Westerners in Yemen, ancestral homeland of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

Witnesses said the rockets were fired at an oil pipeline...