A Yemeni man sits by the wreckage of tourists' cars at the site of a suspected al-Qaeda car bomb attack in Marib in July 2007. Photograph: Khaled Abdullah/ReutersFrom AP:
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — The cave tucked in the remote Saudi mountains near the Yemeni border was clearly a way station for Islamic militants, Saudi police say, pointing to the stock of guns and ammunition, nooks for holding hostages and cameras for filming them.
It even had buckets of sugar, rice and flour, as well as boxes of charcoal, candles, pasta and beans — supplies for a long stay by al-Qaida fighters moving across the border to prepare attacks in the kingdom.
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My Comment: Yemen has always had a history of fundamentalism and tribalism that no Yemeni Central Government was ever able to control or vanquish. Low level insurgency will always exist in this country .... the priority is to make sure that it stays that way, and that it would not spread to the other countries.
Update: Eight killed in south Yemen unrest -- AFP
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