AL-QAIDA SAYS IT KILLED AMERICAN LANGUAGE TEACHER IN YEMEN
A Yemeni militant group affiliated with al-Qaida says it has shot and killed an American teacher in southern Yemen for preaching Christianity . Militants riding a motorcycle shot the man in his car in the southern city of Taiz on Sunday. Yemeni officials say the American had been working at a European-run language institute. Authorities launched an investigation to find the perpetrators of the attack. A U.S. State Department official confirmed the killing of the U.S. citizen in a statement sent to VOA , condemning it as a "heinous crime" and urging Yemen to bring those responsible to justice. Al-Qaida linked group Ansar al-Sharia sent a text message to Yemen-based journalists saying it killed the American because he was a Christian missionary . Islamist militants often accuse Western aid and development groups of proselytizing. A Swiss woman working as a language teacher in Yemen's western port of Hodeida was abducted last week. The identity of the kidnapper...