Recommend this article  A car bomb outside the gate of a
presidential compound in southern Yemen killed at least 25
people hours after the country's new president was formally
inaugurated and vowed to fight al-Qaida.  A security official
said the attack in the city of Mukalla in Hadramout province was
carried out by a suicide bomber, and that it bore the hallmarks
of an al-Qaida operation. Both al-Qaida and southern separatists
are active in the region.   The blast came hours after Abed
Rabbo Mansour Hadi was sworn in as president to replace longtime
leader Ali Abdullah Saleh, following an election aimed at ending
more than a year of political turmoil in Yemen. Hadi was the
only candidate in the election.  In his televised speech before
parliament, Hadi vowed to keep up Yemen's fight against al-
Qaida-linked militants, who have taken advantage of the
country's political turmoil to seize control of towns and swaths
of territory in the restive south.  Hadi also pledged that
thousands of Yemenis who have been for