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Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Second Bomber

Gregory Johnsen

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After weeks of speculation and false leads Yemen has identified the suicide bomber that attempted to attack a South Korean convoy in March. The attacker was 20-year-old Khalid Abdullah Ali al-Dhayani from San’a. According to press reports, he was supposedly on Yemen’s most wanted list, not that anyone would know given how closely al-Masri guards the list.

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