Unidentified assailants opened fire on the Yemeni information minister's car in Sana'a Tuesday in a failed assassination attempt, an aide said. Ali Al-Amrani's secretary, Abdel-Basset Al-Qaedi, said the vehicle was riddled with bullets fired as the minister was leaving government headquarters after a weekly cabinet meeting, but the minister was not hurt. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack. Police launched an investigation. He was appointed information minister in a coalition government between the opposition and the GPC after Saleh signed a deal transferring power to his deputy, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, in a move aimed at pulling the country from the brink of civil war.
