DUBAI ( 2008-04-01 01:37:00 ) :
Al Qaeda's wing in Yemen has said it carried out separate attacks on a French oil pipeline and a Chinese oilfield last week in Yemen, web monitoring group Site said on Monday.
The attackers, calling themselves the Jund Al-Yemen Brigades claimed they detonated a timed explosive on Thursday on a pipeline belonging to France's Total in the western Saah district, the Site Intelligence Group reported.
In a statement posted on a website, the group also said it fired mortars on Saturday at an oilfield owned by an unidentified Chinese firm in the eastern district of Hadramut.
"Both these operations are stated as means of support against the enemy," Site reported, adding that the authenticity of the message could not be verified.
There were no previous reports of the alleged attacks.
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