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| Arabia |
| Preparations to storm Al-Qaeda-controlled town |
| 2012-05-11 |
| [Yemen Post] Minister of Defense, Major General Mohammad Nasser Ahmed, along with Aden governor Waheed Ali Rasheed have reviewed combat readiness of military units as they visited on Wednesday a number of military and security units in Aden. Media sources stated that preparations are ongoing to carry out military storm against Zinjibar town controlled by Al-Qaeda a year ago. According to the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) Defense Minister visited Badr camp on Wednesday, pointing out that the minister was received by the commander of the Southern Military Region Salem Ali Qatan who briefed him on the combat readiness of the camp's military units. President Abdu Rabo Hadi had vowed in an address delivered before Yemeni officers and troops last week that he will defeat Al-Qaeda. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... Al-Qaeda attacked hours after the address a military position in 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... , killed and captured dozens of the Yemeni troops. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... a senior Yemeni military commander Mohammed Ali Mohsin has revealed that all Yemen's armed forces received no weapons except the Republican Guard headed by Ahmed Ali, the elderly son of the former president Ali Abdullah Saelh since 1994. In an interview with an English-speaking newspaper, Mohsin revealed that Saleh directed 25 percent of the armed forces' budget to go to the Republican Guard. He said the purchase of weapons does not go through the Defense Ministry, pointing out that private deals are performed without the knowledge of the Defense Ministry. "The daily food ration for each soldier in the Republican Guard is 150 grams per day, while the soldier's ration in any other military unit is only 75 grams" he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 In any war at least 25% of the military budget goes to elite troops. Any booby traps gonna be in that town, ya think? |
| Posted by: Mikey Hunt 2012-05-11 12:50 |