ADEN/SANAA, (Reuters) — Yemen's
defense minister survived a suicide bomb attack on his convoy in the
south on Tuesday, while thousands of protesters took to the streets of
the capital repeating their calls for the president to quit.The blast in Aden wounded seven soldiers traveling in the lead
vehicle of the ministerial motorcade, but Defense Minister Mohammed
Nasser Ali, who was riding in the second car, was unharmed, a local
official said.Since popular protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh broke out in this impoverished Arabian Peninsula state earlier this year, Islamist militants suspected of links to al Qaeda have tightened their grip on the south and have repeatedly targeted troops and security officials.
International powers fear growing lawlessness in Yemen could embolden al Qaeda's local wing and imperil strategic shipping routes.
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