Secretary General of the Southern Movement Abdullah Al-Nakhibi has demanded President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh...
to reconstruct the army and security services, and dismiss relatives of 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...
from these services.
He said that gangs that were trained in Iran and that have ties with the Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America™", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ...
group infiltrated to peaceful protests and clashed with security forces in an Aden protest on Saturday.
Al-Nakhibi affirmed that Iran cooperates with Al-Beidh to provide support to some armed factions in Al-Beidh, considering the defeat of Al-Qaeda 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...
was as a setback to, al-Beidh, Houthis, Iran and other radical groups.
In remarks to Akhbar Alyawam, he said that the gunnies are affiliated to the former southern president Ali Salim al-Beidh were sent to Aden with the aim of provoking chaos acts and turmoil.
He held Al-Beidh responsible for violence, urging the southerners to continue their struggle peacefully and abandon violent behavior and calling Hadi to resend all properties of the southerners that were taken over by some officials and powerful figures.
Two protesters were killed and one man was left "clinically dead" in the festivities which took place in Al-Mansura district of Aden on Saturday, while trying to get into a public square in the Mansoura district of the Arabian Sea port city.
About 25 protesters were tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
the protest that was held to commemorate the day in 1994 that government forces from Sana'a stormed Aden at the end of a brief civil war, but they were released hours after the deadly festivities.