Murder in Yemen September 2008

The suicide bombing near the American embassy in Sanaa, Yemen shows the lowest common denominator in human behavior, cruelty and savagery. Lot of people were killed of all variety of ages and walks of life.
A Muslim commits such act is unbelievable.

CNN) -- The U.S. State Department on Thursday recommended that all non-emergency staff and their families at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen leave the country after an attack on the building that killed 11 people, including one American.

Six Yemeni police and four civilians when the attackers, disguised as Yemeni forces, bombed the outer wall of the embassy and opened fire on first responders, said Mohammed al-Basha, a spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington.

Six attackers -- including one wearing a suicide vest -- were also killed, al-Basha said. Yemeni forces have rounded up at least 30 suspects, a security official said.

On Thursday, U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood reported that an American was among the dead as well.

We are saddened to confirm that among the victims of yesterday's terrorist attack against our Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, was Susan El-Baneh, an American citizen."

El-Baneh, 18, of Lackawanna, New York, had just been married and was visiting family in the Yemeni capital. Her husband, a Yemeni national, also died in the attack, Wood said.

The State Department's directive to non-emergency staff followed a similar warning in April, after after attacks against the embassy and a residential compound. That order was lifted last month, but has been reinstated since Wednesday's attack.

(CNN) -- Eighteen-year-old Susan El-Baneh and her husband of three weeks died holding hands, her brother said, victims of a terrorist attack Wednesday on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen.

The Lackawanna, New York, native, a high school senior, had gone to the Arabian Peninsula country a month ago for an arranged marriage. She and her husband were in the waiting area of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, trying to find out the procedure to bring her spouse back to the United States. Susan El-Baneh was the only American killed in the attack.

Some of El-Baneh's family members, who had traveled from Lackawanna with her for the wedding, heard the blasts of the coordinated terrorist attack echo through the city's walls.

When they called to find out what happened, the relatives were told that 16 people, including the attackers, had been killed, her brother Ahmed El-Baneh told CNN on Thursday. Among them were an unidentified man and his wife.

Susan El-Baneh's uncle rushed to the hospital to see the bodies.

"He just knew it was them," Ahmed El-Baneh said. The couple was still holding hands, he said.