DUBAI — Counter-terrorism authorities are said to be hunting for a 16-year-old boy from northern Yemen suspected of having been recruited by Al Qaeda to be a homicide bomber at one of five foreign targets in the southern port city of Aden, according to Western sources close to Yemeni security officials.
The intelligence reports that have circulated in the past week have caused several Western institutions to quietly shut their offices in Aden and prompted families with children based there to leave, the sources said. There are believed to be only a few hundred Westerners still living in Aden. Yemeni police and security authorities are said to have erected roadblocks to check on travelers.
News of a terrorist threat in Aden, previously regarded as the more stable part of the country, came as American and British officials reopened their embassies in Sana’a, the Yemeni capital. Both countries recently shut their embassies for two days, citing terrorist threats by Al Qaeda.
