05/12/2014 -
Two Al Qaeda gunmen tried to kidnap two U.S. embassy employees in Yemen last month but were shot and killed by one of the Americans, a Yemeni government official told CNN on Saturday. The attempted kidnapping was carried out by two armed men with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on April 24, and the fatal shooting occurred near a Yemeni barbershop where many foreigners go to get their hair cut, the Yemeni official said. Marie Harf, deputy spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, said in a statement: "We can confirm that, last month, two U.S. embassy officers in Yemen fired their weapons after being confronted by armed individuals in an attempted kidnapping at a small commercial business in Sa'ana. Two of the armed individuals were killed. The embassy officers are no longer in Yemen." The revelation of the incident comes after the U.S. embassy in Yemen was indefinitely shuttered Wednesday amid security concerns and as fighting between security forces and AQAP intensifies.
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