The Yemen-based al-Qaida wing on Saturday claimed responsibility for a string of deadly attacks against the intelligence personnel and facilities in the north and south of the country. In a statement posted on jihadist forums, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said they were behind the Sept. 25 ambush of a bus carrying top intelligence officers in the capital Sanaa, claiming they killed 14 of them and injuring the others. The AQAP set the ambush when the counter-terrorism officers were en-route to practice in the area after they had finished a U. S.-sponsored training course in Sanaa. All 'Mujahideen' assailants returned to their hideout unharmed, said the statement. On Sept. 25, an intelligence official told Xinhua at least two intelligence agents were killed and eight others wounded in an al- Qaida attack on their bus in Sanaa. He said three masked al-Qaida gunmen with AK-47 rifles fired at a police bus driving near the Al-Eyman University, a religious university run and owned by Sheik Abdulmajid al-Zandani, other Salafi clerics and tribesmen. The Al-Eyman University was once suspected by the Yemeni government and the United States of harboring al-Qaida fighters. The AQAP also said they were behind five separate attacks in the past months against the intelligence facilities in Lahj province, south of Sanaa, killing eight agents including the director of the security investigation department Colonel Ali Abdulkarim. Intelligence services in the impoverished country at the southern rim of the Arabian peninsula has been a repeated target by AQAP since early this year, leaving dozens of their counter- terrorism personnel killed or injured. 