Bombing At US Embassy in Yemen Kills 10

A pair of car bombs exploded outside the US embassy in Yemen, killing 10 people. Watch for al Qaeda to claim responsibility. Six Yemeni guards and four civilians were killed, but no Americans were injured. Gunfire was also reported in the vicinity:

A second explosion followed the first blast almost immediately, a U.S. embassy spokesman said. A Yemeni security official said the embassy was hit by two car bombs, followed by heavy gunfire that lasted about 10 minutes.

Ryan Gliha, the embassy spokesman, told The Associated Press by telephone that several nearby homes were badly damaged. Gliha, speaking from inside the large, heavily guarded compound, could not immediately say whether the embassy suffered any damage.

The embassy in Yemen, which is the ancestral homeland of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, has been targeted by militants at least four times since 2003, most recently in March when mortar rounds crashed into a girls' school next door, killing a Yemeni security guard and wounding more than a dozen girls.

UPDATE:
The New York Times, with a byline from Beirut Lebanon (and which could have been reported from the NYT offices in NYC for all the additional information provided), reports a few additional details. First, they lump together the six terrorists involved in the attack with their 10 victims (6 police, 4 civilians) to come up with the tally in their headline of 16 dead. It's factually correct, from a certain point of view - one in which good and evil have no meaning.

Second, the Times notes that the terrorists dressed up as military guards to surprise the Yemeni military guarding the embassy.

Meanwhile, we're supposed to believe that Ramadan means anything to the Islamic terrorists who kill more Muslims than any other group on the planet? Ramadan is just another day to carry out terrorist attacks, and it isn't shocking to anyone who has been paying attention.