January 27, 2009, 11:56 AM (GMT+02:00) Saeed Shihri, a top al Qaeda leader in Yemen No one was hurt. Security forces chased three men who opened fire from a car on a checkpoint outside the US embassy in Sanaa. All three were arrested. Hours before the attack, the embassy received a threat of an attacking coming "in the foreseeable future." Al Qaeda was blamed for a double car-bomb attack on the US embassy in Yemen which killed 16 people last September. This week, two former Guantanamo inmates appeared on an al Qaeda website video to affirm their dedication to jihad shortly after President Barack Obama signed a directive to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba within a year. One was a Saudi man identified as Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al Shahri or Saeed Shihri, one of al Qaeda's top leaders in Yemen January 27, 2009, 6:10 PM (GMT+02:00) Palestinian bomb blows up Israel patrol outside Gaza fence The Israeli soldier was killed and three others were injured, one seriously, Tuesday, Jan. 27, when Palestinians detonated a large explosive device against a routine Israeli military patrol near the Kissufim crossing a week after Israeli troops exited the Gaza Strip. Eight hours later, an Israeli air strike killed a Hamas operative involved in the attack on a motorbike near Khan Younis. DEBKAfile's military sources expected further clashes after defense minister Ehud Barak warned that Israel would respond to the Palestinians' unacceptable breach of the ceasefire. 
Gunmen open fire outside US embassy in Yemen
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Israeli air force raids S. Gaza after Palestinian bomb kills an Israeli soldier
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009
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