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YEMEN
U.S. Embassy Attackers Said Linked to Al-Qaeda
The six-man suicide squad that assaulted the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sept. 17 had trained at al-Qaeda camps in the southern Yemeni provinces of Hadramut and Marib, and three of them had recently returned from Iraq, a Yemeni security official said Saturday.
Armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles, the attackers drove two cars packed with explosives into the embassy gate and sprayed it with bullets before being killed. Besides the attackers, 13 others died in the incident, including an 18-year-old American woman of Yemeni origin.
It was the deadliest direct assault on a U.S. embassy in a decade.
CHINA
Makers of Animal Feed Also Added Melamine
Animal feed makers deliberately added an industrial chemical to their products, ignoring a year-old government rule meant to protect China's food supply, an Agriculture Ministry official said in remarks made public Saturday.
Inspection teams have begun a nationwide "punishment" campaign against feed makers found using excessive amounts of melamine, the official said.
Of the 250,000 feed makers and breeders inspected, more than 500 were found to have engaged in illegal or questionable practices, with police further investigating 27 companies, the official added.
In the nearly two months since the Chinese government first acknowledged that melamine had contaminated the nation's milk supply, the chemical has been detected in eggs, candy and other products. Its presence in feed raises fears about the safety of meat and fish.
PERU
Army Is Given Go-Ahead To Curb Unrest in South
Peru gave its military a green light Saturday to step in to maintain order in the southern province of Tacna, where thousands of people blocked roads and cut water supplies this week to protest a mining royalty law.
The measure will remain in place until Nov. 7.
