16 Dead In Car Bombing At US Embassy In Yemen -- Yahoo News/APSAN'A, Yemen - A car bomb exploded at the front gate of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital Wednesday, killing six Yemeni guards, six attackers, and four civilians, officials said. No American personnel were reported hurt.
Several "secondary explosions" followed the first blast, the embassy said in a statement. A Yemeni security official said the compound was hit by two car bombs, followed by heavy gunfire that lasted about 10 minutes.
Ryan Gliha, a spokesman for the embassy, told The Associated Press by telephone that several nearby homes were badly damaged. Gliha, speaking from inside the large, heavily guarded compound, could not immediately say whether the embassy suffered any damage.
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Car Bomb Kills 16 Outside US Embassy in Yemen -- Voice Of America
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Islamic Jihad in Yemen claims responsibility for US Embassy bomb -- Jerusalem Post
Car bomb at U.S. embassy in Yemen kills 16 -- Yahoo News/Reuters
My Comment: Maximum casualties was the plan in this attack. But attacking a heavily fortified compound will rarely succeed. In this case .... they did not.
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