almotamar.net - Security authorities in Yemen have begun investigating with a terrorist cell composed of seven persons from among 30 persons arrested during a storming operation carried out by police in a number of areas situated along the borders between Yemen and Saudi Arabia last week.

A security source told almotamar.net Monday that first investigations disclosed that members of the cell were receiving orders from al-Qaeda organisation leadership to infiltrate into the Yemeni territories and to prepare for carrying out a series of terrorist attacks against foreign interests and tourist facilities in Yemen in addition to training a number of al-Qaeda members in Yemen.

According to the source the members of the cell hold the Saudi nationality. They had received intensive combat and offensive trainings inside Saudi Arabia on the use of different weapons, planting bombs and detonating them from distance and engagement with security men and launching direct attack.

This development comes at a time the when Yemen and Saudi Arabia have risen their level of coordination for fighting terror and controlling the borders of the two countries with the aim of preventing infiltration attempts by al-Qaeda elements after its announcement of establishing a new unified leadership in the Arabian Peninsula.