The defense ministry on Tuesday said the security authorities have nabbedInto the paddy wagon wit' yez!
14 Al-Qaeda suspects including 9 foreigners while planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Yemen.
The nabbed
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, including four Egyptians, two Jordanians, a Somali, a Tunisian and two Caucasians, had planned to attack senior military and civil leaders as well as foreign interests in the country, it said.
"They were working under three terrorist cells and the largest was part of the gunnies who fought the army over the past few months in the south," it added. The ministry, however, did not give names or details about the arrest places and measures.
When the army launched a US-backed offensive against Al-Qaeda thugs, who seized key towns and declared them as Islamic emirates in the south last year, international reports and observers argued the latest developments have already been in favor of militancy in Yemen.
The army said foreigners were among those who were killed, injured and nabbed
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during the offensive.
The army drove Al-Qaeda gunnies out of their strongholds 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...
and Shabwa and has killed hundreds including big shots.
With support from the US and tribal fighters, the national forces are pursuing gunnies who beat feet from Abyan in nearby provinces, with many so far reported dead and nabbed
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in the past few weeks.
Last month, the authorities nabbed
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more than a dozen terrorist cells including the one behind the deadly suicide kaboom attack targeting a military parade rehearsal in the capital Sanaa in May.