The diplomat, a military attache in the Saudi Arabian Embassy here, was inside his four-wheel-drive vehicle about noon when another vehicle blocked the road, according to a Yemeni security official. The gunmen stepped out of their vehicle and began firing into the diplomat’s car.
ý ýBoth the diplomat and his bodyguard were shot in the head,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
A spokesman at the embassy could not be reached for comment. The Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Arabia’s official media arm, identified the diplomat as Sgt. Khalid al-Onizi, citing an official with the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
In March, gunmen kidnapped Saudi Arabia’s deputy consul in the port city of Aden. Last month, a masked gunman shot and killed a Yemeni security official who worked for the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa. Both attacks bore the hallmarks of al-Qaeda militants.
Saudi Arabia, which shares its southern border with Yemen, is playing a key role in helping the Yemeni government and the United States battle al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terrorist network’s Yemeni affiliate. Both Washington and Riyadh consider the group a threat to their political and economic interests in a strategic region with vital oil-shipping lanes.
AQAP, as the group is known, has attempted to attack the United States on several occasions since 2009, including sending parcel bombs on flights into the country in 2010. AQAP was formed by the merger of al-Qaeda’s Yemeni and Saudi Arabian branches in January 2009.
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