AQAP CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR SANA'A SUICIDE ATTACK

SANA'A, May 12 (Saba) - Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP has claimed responsibility for the failed suicide attack against the convoy of the British envoy in Yemen Tim Torlot almost two weeks ago, media outlets have reported.

The organization said in a statement that the operation carried out by martyr Othman Al-Sulwi of the Abu Amr Al-Baghdadi Brigade came in retaliation for the international summit on Yemen that was hosted by London early this year.

The organization saw the meeting as a conspiracy against Yemen and the Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula, the statement said.

It said that Britain is the main ally of the U.S. in the war on terrorism and it called for the London summit just to conspire against the Arab, adding that the January 27 conspiracy was not the only scheme to fight Muslims.

The west had already given Palestine to the Jewish people and occupied Muslim countries dividing the Muslim nation to many states to weaken them, it concluded.

Torlot and other British diplomats who were in the convoy were unhurt in the attack on April 26 at the Berlin Park, Sana'a.

However, three passers-by were injured.

Head of the suicide bomber, who was, according to some reports, a high school student, aged 22, was found on the roof of a house at the bombing site.

He was identified shortly after the attack, with authorities saying the bombing bore the fingerprints of Al-Qaeda.

Yemen has recently intensified hunt for Al-Qaeda in various governorates, launching preemptive airstrikes in which dozens of terrorist suspects were killed, injured and arrested.

Several successful operations were implemented in late last year and early this year in the north and the south that were hailed regionally and internationally.

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