The alleged fire shots and Al-Qaeda in Yemen

The alleged shoot­ings near the Amer­i­can Embassy in Yemen was noth­ing more than police fired two shots in the air to warn a speed­ing car failed to stop at the checkpoint.

Police source said that the three per­sons in car were unarmed and the check­point itself is very far from the Amer­i­can embassy.

As for the so called new AL-Qaeda video [1, 2], announc­ing the uni­fi­ca­tion of Yemeni – Saudi orga­ni­za­tions, Yemen oppo­si­tion said that behind the lines; the announce­ment is the uni­fi­ca­tion between Al-Qaeda and the Yemeni gov­ern­ment to con­front the increas­ing

Yemen already had a long his­tory of fak­ing Al-Qaeda attacks, that the Yemeni gov­ern­ment even crit­i­cized by Saudi Arabia.

I don’t know the con­tent of the let­ter sent by Saudi King Abdul­lah to the Yemeni pres­i­dent Ali Abdul­lah Salih, if it yet another crit­i­cism or “let’s do this together”.