Yemeni Forces Arrest 3 Al-Qaeda Elements

Yemeni police arrested three foreigners in the capital Sana’a after one of them was found to have al-Qaeda material in his possession, media report said.

The foreigners, a Bulgarian, Belgian and Somali, were aged between 22 and 48, Yemen’s Interior Ministry said on its website late on Friday, Yahoo News reported.

“The third person was found to have slogans for al-Qaeda in his possession,” the statement said without identifying which of the three men it was referring to.

Al-Qaeda-linked violence against Yemeni security forces has been growing since February 2012, when President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi came to power in a one-man election backed by Saudi Arabia and the United States.