Al-Qaeda Targets Children in Retaliatory Attacks
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Yemeni police stand guard outside a memorial service commemorating victims of a 2008 suicide bombing in Sanaa. [Khaled Abdullah Ali al-Mahdi/Reuters]
On July 28th, Ali Majed al-Thahab was outside his home in Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa when unidentified men asked him to deliver a gift to his father, a well-known tribal sheikh.
However, when Ali entered the house, the parcel exploded, killing him instantly.
He was only 12 years old.
“Al-Qaeda was behind the killing of my son,” Sheikh Majed Ahmed Nasser al-Thahab told Al-Bayda Press. “It is a heartless, merciless terrorist organisation.”