Yemen holds US citizen for suspected al-Qaida ties
Yemen's security forces have detained a US citizen suspected of having links to al-Qaida, a Yemeni official said Wednesday.
Authorities arrested the suspect Monday in a hotel in the southern city of Shabwa, which was an al-Qaida stronghold until a military offensive earlier this year pushed the militants into the surrounding mountains, the official said. The man was carrying two US passports and a German one, and had been shuffling from one mosque to another in the nearby eastern city of Marib before moving on to Shabwa, according to the official. (AP)
