Four Al Qaeda militants detained in Yemen

The National Security Agency has captured four Al Qaeda operatives, including one involved in the slaughter of army soldiers and another responsible for a suicide bombing in Sana'a, the agency announced late on Wednesday.

An NSA official source told Saba that the agency has captured terrorist Abdullah Khaled Ali Saleh al-Sharouri, alias Abu Hamza al-Sharouri, who was among Al Qaeda operatives who slaughtered soldiers in al-Houta of Sayoun, Hadramout province on August 8.

The agency also napped in the same operation the terrorist Muslih Yaslim Muhammad al-Saiari, alias Abu Mazin al-Sharouri, and terrorist Salah Salim Awadh al-Saiari, alias Abu Salama, the source said.

He said the three men were part of a terror cell, and that the agency was still pursuing other members of the cell who were still on the run.

The arrests were made a few days after another operation in which a leader of another Al Qaeda cell, called Adel Muhammad Ahmad Ali al-Raimi, alias Abu Ataa, was captured.

Al-Raimi was responsible for the October 9 suicide bombing that left dozens of people killed and injured, the source said, adding that with al-Raimi's capture, several terrorist attacks that al-Raimi's cell has been planning in the capital Sana'a have been thwarted.