To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (8647 ) 7/2/2007 3:45:06 PM From: FJB Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 20106 Yemen bomb kills Spanish tourists At least seven people have been killed by an explosion at a tourist site in Yemen, according to officials. Six Spanish tourists and at least one Yemeni died in the blast at the Queen of Sheba temple in Marib. About seven others were injured, reports said, in what officials described as a car bomb attack at the gate of the site. Yemen has faced continuing unrest in recent years, which the government often blames on al-Qaeda operatives. Witnesses said a vehicle entered a gate at the site, known in Yemen by its Arabic name Balqis, before it exploded. ATTACKS IN YEMEN October 2000: Seventeen US sailors die in suicide attack on USS Cole in Yemeni port October 2002: A similar attack against French tanker the Limburg kills one Bulgarian and wounds 12 others September2006: Four bombers and a security guard die when Yemeni security forces foil suicide attacks against two oil refineries March 2003: A Canadian is killed and another wounded after a Yemeni gunman opens fire at an oilfield east of Sanaa The victims were reported to belong to a group of around 14 Spanish tourists visiting the site, some 170km (110 miles) east of the capital, Sanaa. Witnesses said the bomb went off at around 1800 (1500 GMT) on Monday as the visitors were finishing a tour of the temple, built 3,000 years ago at the time of the Queen of Sheba. In recent year's Yemen's government has been fighting Islamists with the help of US special forces based in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa. Yemeni security sources told Reuters news agency they believed al-Qaeda could be behind the attack. The group has demanded the release of militants jailed in the country. news.bbc.co.uk