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Arabia
Reports on Firing Military, Security Chiefs 'Fabricated'
2012-11-22
[Yemen Post] Yemen's presidential office denied on Tuesday that President Hadi issued or plans to issue decrees to fire commander of the republican guard, the elder son of the former president, and chief of staff of the central security forces, a nephew of the former president.

The official news agency Saba quoted a source at the office as saying the reports including the original story on the official Althawra website about decrees to fire military and security chiefs were 'untrue'.

"Such reports were inciting, sabotaging and aimed at inflaming the situation in Yemen," Saba quoted the presidential source as saying.

The original story, which has been removed by Althawra, also talked about republican decrees to sack commander of the first armored division in the next two days.

In its comment on the situation, Althawra said its website was hacked and it had nothing to do with such news which was not in line with its policies and ethics.

Officials at the official newspaper said they will contact the host of the website to identify those who hacked the website.

Earlier today, editor-in-chief of Althawra, Abdulrahman Bajash, resigned, but there were not reports whether the decision was because of the story or not.

Yemen has launched major efforts to end the division of the army and to restructure the national forces under a West-backed power-transfer
deal.
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