[Yemen Post] A tribal mediation managed on Sunday to set free commander of the 62nd Republican Guard Brigade, Brigadier General Murad Al-Awbali, who was kidnapped ten days ago by angry soldiers from Khawlan tribe, local sources affirmed.The sources made it clear that the mediation pledged to meet the demands of the kidnappers who request to their salaries that were suspended after they declared their support to Yemen's uprising.
Tribal tensions had broke out last week between Khwalan and Sanhan tribes following the abduction of Al-Awbali by soldiers from Khawlan, local sources said. For its side, Sanhan which Al-Awbli releates to kidnapped a number of persons who are from Khwlan in an attempt to put pressures on the kidnappers to release Al-Awbali. Al-Awbali, a loyalist to 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...
and his son Ahmed, is accused of committing crimes against protesters in the southern province of Taiz. Taiz protesters demonstrated repeatedly, demanding to hold al-Awbali accountable.
He was appointed Ahmed Saleh as a commander of the 62 brigade by after the protests calling for his arrest and prosecutions increased.
President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi
...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh...
replaced about high-ranking generals of Saleh's relatives and loyalists in a bid to implement reforms in the army, but the well-equipped military units, the Republican Guard, are still run by Saleh's son, Ahmed.
After carrying out reforms in army and security services, the Yemeni army could defeat al-Qaeda in some districts 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...
governorate.