Can’t be, they’re in defeat.

Via Fox News:

Two Yemenis who were fatally shot by U.S. officers outside a barber shop in that country’s capital last month reportedly had ties to an Al Qaeda-linked cell responsible for several recent attacks on foreigners.

Citing a Yemeni official, The New York Times reported late Saturday that the cell was part of a kidnapping ring that has been blamed for the killing of a Frenchman last week; the attempted assassination of a German diplomat last month; an attack on the central prison in Sanaa this past February, which resulted in the release of 19 inmates; and the kidnapping of a Dutch couple last year.

The State Department said Saturday that the shooting on April 24 in an upscale neighborhood of Sanaa stemmed from a kidnapping attempt as well. Witnesses tell The Wall Street Journal that they saw a Western-looking man pull a gun from his belt and fatally shoot both Yemenis. An Interior Ministry spokesman told the Times that the would-be kidnappers were posing as police officers.

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