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Al-Qaeda claims new attack on Yemen oil plant
YemenOnline-June30,2008- Acording to (AFP) The Yemen branch of Al-Qaeda said on Monday it had fired three rockets against an oil refinery east of Sanaa, but witnesses said the attack was abortive. Al-Qaeda said in a statement posted on an Islamist website that its Jund al-Yemen (Soldiers of Yemen) group launched three Katyusha rockets against the Safir refinery in the Maarib province. Wednesday's attack was aimed at "drying up the supply of fuel of the Zionist and Crusader (regime of President President Ali Abdallah Saleh)," it said. Yemen has not announced any attack but witnesses in the area, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the capital Sanaa, told AFP that two rockets had been found intact and not been fired, while the third missed its target.Besides the refinery, the area has around 40 oil wells. Al-Qaeda in Yemen has claimed numerous attacks against oil installations, the latest being early this months against the Aden refinery in the south of the country. The authorities say they have not caused any damage.
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