American Teacher At Language School In Yemen Gunned Down and Killed By Al Qaeda

More than 200 people have been abducted in Yemen during the past 15 years Photo: EPA

The information is very spotty at best but it is being reported by The Telegraph that a U.S. schoolteacher who was working in a language school run by the Swedes has been shot dead in his car by a drive by al Qaeda attack.

From the article:

The assailants rode a motorbike in their attack on the man, who was the deputy director of a Swedish language centre in the city, 173 miles southwest of Sana'a, the official said on condition of anonymity, adding they fled the scene after the shooting.

The victim was shot dead in his car in the neighbourhood of Sena, he added.

The US embassy in Sana'a said it did not have information about the killing and was investigating.

The attack comes two days after an official said suspected al-Qaeda gunmen abducted a Swiss woman, also a teacher at a language school, in the Red Sea port of Hodeida and moved her to the restive Shabwa province further east.

First of all, I mourn the loss of this American but it boggles my mind that any American would even be left in Yemen...it's a bit like being an American right now in Somalia. Why? If you don't get killed by this guy, you are going to be targeted by al Qaeda for kidnapping although the Europeans are a better target because they usually pay al Qaeda for their hostages.

Yemen is nearly lost - the only thing left to find out here is who is going to end up in control - the fact of the matter for the Obama administration and their "joy" of seeing the Arab Spring is that they have a complete mess on their hands in Yemen, in Syria, in Libya and in Egypt. A complete Islamic mess.

Allahu Ackbar. Right, Barry?

US teacher shot dead in Yemen


The assailants rode a motorbike in their attack on the man, who was the deputy director of a Swedish language centre in the city, 173 miles southwest of Sana'a, the official said on condition of anonymity, adding they fled the scene after the shooting.

The victim was shot dead in his car in the neighbourhood of Sena, he added.

The US embassy in Sana'a said it did not have information about the killing and was investigating.

The attack comes two days after an official said suspected al-Qaeda gunmen abducted a Swiss woman, also a teacher at a language school, in the Red Sea port of Hodeida and moved her to the restive Shabwa province further east.

Al-Qaeda local branch is active in the south and east of Yemen, but not in Taez, which was a major centre for the year-long opposition movement against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, that forced the veteran leader to step down last month.

More than 200 people have been abducted in Yemen during the past 15 years, many of them by members of the country's powerful tribes who use them as bargaining chips with the authorities.

Almost all of those kidnapped were later freed unharmed.