Belgians killed in Yemen attack

Two female Belgians killed in Yemen attack of tourists by Islamists

British Broadcasting Company reported two female Belgian tourists and their driver were killed by ambush as Islamic gunmen attacked their convoy in eastern Yemen.

The attack occurred in the Hadramut province, injuring four other Belgians. Yemen is seeing a return of activist jihad waged in the name of Allah, Islam’s god, for the empowerment of Islam.

The Yemeni authorities have launched a hunt for the attackers, who they believe to be al-Qaeda militants.

Last July, seven Spaniards and two Yemenis were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a group of tourists visiting a temple in central Yemen.

The Belgian tourists were attacked as they travelled through Wadi Dawan, a desert valley about 300km (180 miles) east of the capital Sanaa.

Survivor Karina Lambert said the convoy was ambushed by four gunmen hiding behind a truck parked at the side of the road.

"They immediately started firing on three of the jeeps, the fourth one was further back so it was not hit," she said in a telephone interview with Belgian TV.

"They wanted to kill, that's sure because after the first bursts of machine-gun fire, they approached the vehicles and fired into the cars."

There are reports of a fourth fatality, with Reuters news agency citing the victim as a Yemeni national…

In recent years Yemen's government has been fighting Islamists with the help of US Special Forces based in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa. 

There’s hope the U.S. Special Forces can quash this latest flexing of Islamic jihad – we can hope there would be some consideration for Islamic jihad in America too, once it goes “hot” with planned-for massacres.

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