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| Saudi Embassy in Yemen cautions against plans to target its headquarters |
| 2012-03-17 |
| [Yemen Post] The Saudi Embassy in Sana'a has cautioned against plans of Al-Qaeda to target it, asking all its officials and employees to be alert and take all precautions, diplomatic sources said. Al-Ahali newspaper quoted Saudi diplomats as saying that the Saudi Ambassador to Yemen, Ali Mohammad Al-Hamdan, has informed all attaches and their employees that Al-Qaeda plans to attack the embassy, pointing out that it prepared four car booms to target the embassy. The sources said the ambassador described the information as serious and demanded to reinforce the guards of the embassy. Separately, chief of Aden Security, Major Brigadier Sadiq Haid, revealed that two cargos of weapons were disappeared from Aden city during last month. In a presser held Wednesday in Aden, Haid said that the weapons were sent by the Defense Ministry to the Aden Security, pointing that they are still disappeared in uncertain conditions. One soldier of Aden's checkpoint told Al-Ahali that three cargos of weapons reached the point, and when soldiers attempted to hold them, they found that they have a license of the former commander of the Southern Region Mahdi Maqwala. Previously, one soldier had unveiled that Maqwla had directed all military checkpoints to withdraw of Dofas area in which Al-Qaeda killed more than 185 Yemeni soldiers early of March. Other sources said that Maqwla who was among the closest commander to the former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , distributed ammunitions to unidentified individuals two days before Al-Qaeda attacks on military positions. News reports had stated that Maqwla directed one day before his firing to transfer 200,000 bullets from the stores of Saba camp located in Al-Boraqa of Aden, indicating that the process took two days. Military sources said that an investigation commission dispatched by Hadi to probe the latest events of Abyan found out that Maqwla involved in supporting Al-Qaeda to control military positions. |
| Posted by:Fred |