US to Reopen Yemen Mission on Tuesday

Move comes even as 6 explosives-laden trucks disappear
By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 4, 2010 9:57 PM CST
US to Reopen Yemen Mission on Tuesday
A Yemeni soldier stands guard in front of the main entrance of the US Embassy in San'a in this 2008 file photo.   (AP Photo)

The US Embassy in Yemen will reopen Tuesday, State Department officials tell CNN tonight—even as local media report that security officials there have lost track of six explosives-laden trucks, driven by suspected terrorists, that were under surveillance as they entered the capital, Sana’a. “These reports have nothing to do with the reason embassies were shut,” one Western diplomat tells the Telegraph.
(More Yemen stories.)

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