Yemen Arrests Militants - Accuses Israel of Involvement
The government of Yemen, a regional enemy of Israel, announced Tuesday it had arrested members of a Muslim extremist terrorist cell who were allegedly involved in an attack against the United States embassy in that country last month.
According to Yemen authorities, the cell was supported by Israel. 
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh neglected to provide evidence for his assertion that Israel was behind the radical Muslim organization, however.
“A terrorist cell was arrested and will be referred to the judicial authorities for its links with the Israeli intelligence services,” Mr Saleh told a gathering at al-Mukalla University in Hadramawt province.
“Details of the trial will be announced later. You will hear about what goes on in the proceedings,” he added.
Israel’s foreign ministry immediately rejected the accusation as “totally ridiculous.”
“To believe that Israel would create Islamist cells in Yemen is really far-fetched. This is yet another victory for the proponents of conspiracy theories,” the ministry’s spokesman Igal Palmor said reported by the AFP.
Yemen and Israel have been enemies for decades. The Arabic country has had a fundamentalist and extremist problem for decades as well. Its leaders have sometimes worked with such organizations, abetted them, and then worked against them on occasion. It could to a very large degree be argued that the Yemeni government itself is responsible for terrorist cells operating in the country.
Yemen is a neighbor of Saudi Arabia, a fundamentalist Muslim country founded on the principles of Wahabbism, a fundamentalist Islamic sect. Unlike Saudi Arabia, however, Yemen is almost evenly divided between Shi’a and Sunnis: 55% of the population are Sunni and 42% are Shi’a.
The condition of human rights in Yemen is considered ‘poor.’ Human rights violations take place regularly, with oppression abounding.
