[Yemen Post] Yemeni Defense Minister escaped an liquidation attempt carried out by angry soldiers in the trouble-torn province 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...
local media reported on Saturday.
Angry soldiers fired at the convoy of Ali Nasser Ahmed as he was checking on the forces fighting al-Qaeda hard boyz in the province.
The soldiers are angry because their salaries have not been issued yet. They are all new recruiters, mostly from the tribal militias who have been fighting alongside the army troops for the past couple of months, according to some local sources.
For his part, Jamal al-Aqal, the governor of Abyan who was with the Minister when the liquidation attempt occurred, downplayed the importance of the incident saying the soldiers are new recruiters and that they only fired gunshots in the air as a way to express their protests and anger against not issuing their salaries yet.
He stressed that their rightful demands are being considered and that it would be soon settled.