Yemen police arrest 30 Al-Qaeda suspects

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SANAA (AFP) — Yemeni authorities have arrested 30 suspected Al-Qaeda members in the past two weeks in a crackdown on the jihadist network in the eastern province of Hadramaut, an official told AFP Sunday.

The official, who asked not to be named, said "a series of security operations" have followed a firefight in the town of Tarim on August 11 in which a prominent Al-Qaeda fugitive and four other militants were killed.

Officials said the Tarim cell had been plotting attacks in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, which has battled suspected Al-Qaeda militants for the past five years.

Yemeni authorities said last week that five Al-Qaeda suspects were nabbed near the town of Sayun, where a policeman was killed in a July 25 suicide bombing claimed by Al-Qaeda.

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