There was a shooting attack today at a checkpoint near the US embassy in Yemen: Yemen: Gunshots fired near US embassy.

SAN’A, Yemen – Gunmen in a car exchanged fire Monday with police at a checkpoint near the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital, an Interior Ministry official said, hours after the embassy received threats of a possible attack.

No one was injured and the two gunmen fled the scene, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not permitted to have his name made public. He said three suspects in the area were detained.

It was not clear who was behind the shooting, but al-Qaida has for years maintained a strong presence in the country, the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden.

This immediately follows the news that two ex-Guantanamo inmates returned to work for Al Qaeda in Yemen.

And Yemen’s about to welcome 94 more Gitmo detainees soon—but don’t worry, the Yemeni government has “vowed” they won’t return to terrorism.

SANAA: Yemen said yesterday it expected the repatriation soon of 94 Yemenis held at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp, and vowed it would make sure they did not rejoin the ranks of Islamic militants.