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AL-QAIDA IN YEMEN
Yemeni security forces fought a gunbattle today with suspected members of Al-Qaida holed up in a building in the southern port of al-Mukalla, Yemen, a security official said.
The Al-Qaida suspects are believed to have taken part in the Oct. 6 attack on the French oil tanker Limburg, which killed a crew member.
Police approached the three-story residential building after being tipped off that Al-Qaida members lived there, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A gun fight ensued and at least three people were injured. The casualties were not identified.
Security forces cordoned off the building and set up checkpoints in the city, about 350 miles southeast of the capital, San'a, the official said.
A medical source at al-Mukalla's Ibn Sina hospital confirmed that three men had been admitted with wounds from the shootout.
The attack on the Limburg was carried out by an explosives-packed boat that was detonated next to the tanker's hull. The damaged tanker discharged about 90,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Aden.
AFGHAN ATTACK
Two Afghan interpreters wounded by a grenade explosion at an international peacekeepers' base in Kabul, Afghanistan, died today, a day after the attack.
One Afghan victim was identified as Habib Ullah, 28, who had worked as a translator for a French charity, the Afghan Media and Cultural Center.
Relatives of the other victim asked that his name not be released. He had been an interpreter for the peacekeeping force.
The two French nationals injured in the blast were Alisa Leroy, 29, and Eric Coorevits, 33, said Cyril Papillard, the head of the Afghan Media and Cultural Center.
Coorevits had a badly broken leg and light shrapnel wounds. He received emergency surgery and was to be flown to Paris on Saturday, the spokesman said.
Leroy, who received superficial cuts to her face, was released from a hospital today, Papillard said.
DOCTOR ARRESTED
Protesting doctors chanted anti-American slogans along a main Lahore, Pakistan, road today demanding the release of a prominent physician and his relatives suspected of being Al-Qaida supporters.
Several of the some 50 doctors complained that FBI agents participated in the raid Thursday on the home of naturalized American citizen Javed Ahmad, arrested with eight family members.
Police released four of the relatives today. Those still in custody with Ahmad include his sons, Umar Karar and Khyzer Ali, also naturalized Americans, and Ahmad's brother Naveed Khawja and his son Usman, naturalized Canadians.
Ahmad lived in Florida from 1972 to 1983. The other men returned to live in Pakistan several years ago.
Pakistani police arrested the nine men after a brief exchange of gunfire in the raid aimed at discovering whether Ahmad and his family helped smuggle weapons for possible terror attacks.
Police said today they found $109,500 and an assault rifle at the home. FBI agents Thursday seized computers and computer disks.
"Obviously they were arrested on suspicion of their links with Al-Qaida," Interior Ministry spokesman Iftikhar Ahmad told The Associated Press in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital.
Source: Associated Presss