The assassination of the British ambassador in Yemen, revisited “the Russian view”

The US embassy in Yemen has advised its staff to avoid Moven­pick Hotel fre­quented by West­ern­ers, five days after the failed attack on the British Ambas­sador in Sana’a.

We said ear­lier that the attack is planned by Yemeni gov­ern­ment to force donor coun­tries to give money, a plot also repeated by the head of the Yemeni tribes Sadiq Abdul­lah Al-Ahmar say­ing that the attack on the British ambas­sador is polit­i­cally motivated.

Yemen affairs expert P. Ryabov in the Russ­ian Mid­dle East Stud­ies in Moscow accused the gov­ern­ment in Yemen of being behind the sui­cide bomber plot “The assas­si­na­tion of the British ambas­sador in Yemen” (machine translation):

How can a 21 years old boy carry 30 kilos of explo­sions with­out using a car or a motorcycle?