Attack on US Embassy in Yemen

When you let convicted jihadists walk around freely in your country, you should expect a few attacks. Fox News

SAN'A, Yemen — A Yemeni guard was killed in an explosion Tuesday near the U.S. embassy in the capital of San'a, a Yemeni Interior Ministry official said. Other local guards and some schoolchildren were also wounded in the blast.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity, as Yemeni officials often do, according to protocol.

The official said the blast came after unknown attackers fired two mortars at a high school next to the American embassy in the downtown San'a district of Sawan. The school is attended mostly by Yemeni students.

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Attacks on foreigners have taken place, most recently in January, when a group of Belgian tourists were targeted while traveling in the country's east. Three Belgians and their Yemeni driver were killed and four other Belgians were wounded.

Also, al-Qaida has an active presence in Yemen despite government efforts to destroy the network. The group was blamed for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole destroyer in the Yemeni port of Aden that killed 17 American sailors and the attack on a French oil tanker, the Limburg, that killed one person two years later.

Heavy security troops were deployed to the area, sealing off roads and preventing journalists from coming closer to the explosion site. Security officials stopped an Associated Press reporter a kilometer (mile) away from the embassy building.