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Yemen foils terror attacks on oil installations

Security forces in Yemen on Friday foiled two "terrorist" attacks on oil installations in the southeast of the country, a security source said.

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SANAA: Security forces in Yemen on Friday foiled a twin suicide attack on oil installations in the southeast of country, a security source said.

Four "terrorists" and one security guard were killed in the attack, which comes just five days before the country goes to the polls in presidential and local elections, the source said.

"The first attempt, by terrorists in two booby-trapped cars, was aimed at the Safer oil refinery in Marib, and the second, also by two terrorists in booby-trapped cars, was aimed at oil storage depots at the Al-Dhabba terminal in Hadramout," the source said.

"The two attempts, at around 5:30 am local time (0230 GMT), were foiled by the forces in charge of security at oil installations and the Yemeni army."

The attack came just days after Osama bin Laden's right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri warned that the Gulf and Israel would be the next targets of Al-Qaeda, in a video message coinciding with the fifth anniversary on Monday of the September 11 attacks on the US.

It also followed an attempt by Islamic extremist gunmen to attack the US embassy in Damascus on Tuesday.

Yemen is the ancestral homeland of bin Laden and in October 2000, 17 US sailors died when suicide bombers aboard a small boat attacked the destroyer USS Cole off the southern port of Aden in an attack claimed by the militant network.

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