A Different Drummer

The American girl killed in the Yemen embassy attack may have been killed by her own cousin, a senior member of the local Al Qaeda cell:

Susan Elbaneh, 18, and her Yemeni husband, Abdul Jaleel, whom she had just married on a trip her ancestral homeland, were among the 17 people killed in the well-coordinated attack Wednesday in Sana, the Yemeni capital, relatives and State Department officials said.

Two senior federal officials confirmed that the investigation of the attack, the deadliest direct assault on a U.S. embassy in a decade, is focusing on local Al Qaeda cells that they believe have some connection to Jaber Elbaneh, Susan's cousin. (LA Times)

The story suggests its a total coincidence - she hasn't met the cousin since she was a little kid, and she was just waiting outside the embassy to get in. But a sad and incredible story, however it turns out.