Yemeni al Qaeda says attack on hospital was mistake
Reuters - 14 hrs ago
SANAA (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's wing in Yemen blamed a renegade fighter
for targeting medics and patients in a military hospital during its
attack on the Defence Ministry compound in Sanaa earlier this month,
it said in a statement released on Saturday.
"We do not fight in this way, and this not what we call on people to
do, and this is not our approach," it said in the statement, adding it
had warned its fighters not to attack the hospital.
The killing of unarmed medics and patients, captured on closed-circuit
television footage and broadcast by state media, caused widespread
outrage in Yemen, where al Qaeda has portrayed itself as fighting for
normal people against foreign drone strikes.
Al Qaeda's offshoot Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law) claimed
responsibility earlier this month for the December 5 assault in which
at least 52 people were killed, the worst such attack in Yemen for 18
months.
It said it attacked the compound because it believed it to house an
operations room for drone attacks carried out by the United States
against Islamist militants, which have also led to civilian deaths.
Many of those killed died inside the compound's hospital, where staff
said they had seen foreign doctors and nurses executed by attackers.
The footage released on state television showed uniformed figures
wandering around the hospital's corridors and wards shooting medics
and patients.
One attacker was shown walking up to a group of cowering patients and
calmly tossing a hand grenade into their midst before ducking behind a
wall.
(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Angus McDowall in Riyadh;
Editing by Eric Walsh)
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