Saleh Attack 'An Inside Job'

Agence France Presse reports:

The attack that injured Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was an assassination bid, likely an "inside job," using an explosive device, not a mortar or tank round, US experts said Thursday.

STRATFOR, a US-based authority on strategic and tactical intelligence issues, said its assessment was based on an evaluation of photographs taken of the blast site, a mosque inside Saleh's presidential compound in Sanaa.

"On June 7, we were able to obtain some pictures of the outside of the mosque and the inside of the mosque where the attack happened," said STRATFOR vice president of tactical intelligence Scott Stewart.

"And as we've looked at these pictures very closely, it's enabled us to ascertain that it was indeed an improvised explosive device (IED) used in the attack, not some sort of military munition like a mortar round or a tank-guided missile."