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Yemen arrests man suspected of financing al-Qaeda

Yemen's Interior Ministry has arrested a Yemeni man suspected of financing the local al-Qaeda branch. The ministry said in a statement Saturday that Saleh al-Rimi, a 33-year-old Yemeni living in neighboring Saudi Arabia, was stopped at the airport a day earlier because his name appeared on a security list that identified him as a financier of al-Qaeda.

 

Al-Qaeda has been expanding its presence in Yemen, with a number of its leaders arriving from Saudi Arabia in recent years. Lately the group began targeting Yemeni security forces in brazen attacks in major cities. On Saturday, three soldiers were killed in separate ambushes by suspected al-Qaeda gunmen in southern Yemen. Tension is rising there after attackers killed a local security chief. (AP)

 

 


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