(Reuters) – Masked gunmen shot dead a Yemeni security chief on his way to work at the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Thursday, in an attack a Yemeni security source said appeared to be the work of al Qaeda.The incident was the latest of a wave of attacks on officials in the impoverished Arab state, which is battling Islamist militants with Washington’s help.The attackers, on a motorcycle, opened fire on Qassem Aqlan – who headed an embassy security investigation team – near his house in the centre of Yemen’s capital, the source told Reuters. “This operation has the fingerprints of al Qaeda which carried out similar operations before,” said the source, who asked not to be named.
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CCI Comment: CCI continues to believe that terrorists in Yemen pose the highest risk to expatriate faith-based personnel of any country in the world. There is substantial evidence of AQAP and related factions targeting these workers. Attacks this year include the assassination of a male American worker and the kidnapping of a female Swiss worker.