[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Al-Qaeda has transferred 5 kidnapped UN employees out of Abyan...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an
Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
province, in the south of Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, local media reported on Friday.
This comes about 9 months after the UN staff were kidnapped by the terrorist organization in the province under the control of the Saudi-led coalition forces.
Local media quoted military sources as saying that the operation to smuggle the five abductees came after the failure of the military campaign carried out by the UAE-backed militias in releasing them and taking control over the terrorist organization’s camp in Wadi Omran in Abyan.
Al-Qaeda had demanded a ransom of $5 million for the release of the abductees.
On February 12, an official in the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
office in Yemen announced the kidnapping of 5 employees in Abyan, southern Yemen.
It is noteworthy that the five kidnapped employees include the Director of the United Nations Peace and Security Office in Yemen, Akam Sophiol, and four Yemeni local employees.