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Arabia
Intelligence officer assassinated in Sana'a
2012-11-19
[Yemen Post] An intelligence officer of the Political Security, Khaldon Malik, was killed on Sunday morning in the heart of the capital Sana'a, security officers affirmed.

Eyewitnesses said that masked gunnies shot fire on Malik and managed to escape, pointing out that the officer was transferred to the hospital, but he died.

Dozens of the intelligence officers were killed by gunnies and the Yemeni authorities could not identify the perpetrators so for.

More than 60 Yemeni officers, most of them are intelligence officers, were killed across Yemen since the beginning of 2012.

Most liquidations carried out against intelligence officers have occurred in Aden and Sana'a which experience alarming insecurity since the popular uprising erupted against the former regime in early 2011.Yemeni analysts say that Al-Qaeda failed to target Yemeni strategic facilities and it resorted to assassinate high-ranking officers as a simple option.Leaders of political parties and ministers were frequently to subjected to liquidation attempts in Sana'a and other major cities.

Yemeni political sides exchange accusations about inflaming instability and tensions in light of divisions among military units.

The Interior Ministry has directed to ban cycle of violences with no registration plates in all Yemeni governorates as most liquidations were carried out by gunnies on cycle of violences .

The ministry stated that security campaigns will be conducted to pursue those cycle of violences which have no registrations plates.

Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula had called its members to use cycle of violences and avoid using vehicles after US drones increased against them.

Posted by:Fred

#2  Besoeker - this is nnot the first one, is it? I think AQ has got two or three of them. They appear to have a precise target list.
Posted by: Raider   2012-11-19 10:24  

#1  Perhaps it's time to change uniform insignia or dawn mufti ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-11-19 07:11  

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