Here’s a very weird story from Yemen, where they claim to have arrested eight foreigners who just happen to be recent converts to Islam, and just happen to be linked to Al Qaeda, and also just happen to be smuggling weapons to Somalia: Yemen says arrests 8 Qaeda-linked arms smugglers.

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni forces have arrested eight foreigners with suspected links to al Qaeda who were smuggling weapons from Yemen to Somalia, a senior Interior Ministry official said on Sunday.

The official said four of the smugglers held Australian passports while a fifth was a Danish national, but gave no details on the identities of the other three.

“The eight foreigners were arrested because they smuggled weapons to Somalia from Yemen,” the official said in a statement posted on the state-run news agency Saba.

“Preliminary investigations indicate that they are members of al Qaeda.”

Government sources in the Yemeni capital told Reuters that all of the eight suspects had converted to Islam earlier this year and received religious instruction in Yemen.