At least 25 terrorists with suspected links to al-Qaida have been arrested in connection with the deadly attack on the US Embassy in the Yemeni capital, a senior security official said Thursday. The Yemeni official said the 25 have been rounded up from various parts of Yemen over the past 24 hours and were being questioned by Yemeni and US investigators.
Meanwhile, the US State Department on Thursday confirmed that a young American woman and her Yemeni husband were killed in the terrorist attack. A spokesman said officials had verified reports the family of Susan Elbaneh that the 18-year-old was among the victims of Wednesday's attack. Elbaneh, who was recently wed in Yemen in an arranged marriage, was outside the embassy with her husband apparently waiting to complete paperwork, according to her brother. Elbaneh, a high school senior, was among eight children in the family, which her brother described as "huge and close-knit." Ahmed Elbaneh said she planned to return to New York with her new husband, finish school and become a nurse. She had been in Yemen for a month for the marriage on Aug. 25.