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Arabia
Yemen approves use of helicopters against saboteurs
2012-11-27
[Yemen Post] The Military Committee formed under the GCC-crafted power transfer deal has approved using of helicopters in the hunt of saboteurs.

The committee reversed two helicopters to pursue those who blockade main roads linking between major cities, the state news agency, Saba, said.

The committee ordered to set up security checkpoints in the main road linking between the port city of Hodeida and the capital Sana'a as well as checkpoints in the Sana'a-Marib road.

Road blockades and attacking oil, gas pipelines, and electricity plants by rustics caused many problems to the interm government and people.

According to Saba, more than 130 road blockades occurred in different Yemeni governorates in October, pointing out that attempts of security forces to remove such blockades led to the killing of eight persons and wounding more others. Some tribes try to put pressures on the government through blockading roads, particularly after the eruption of Yemen's uprising in 2011.

Killings and other criminal acts have remarkably increased in some governorates due to Dire Revenge™ and armed disputes as gunnies exploited insecurity in Sana'a to carry out killings and tribal Dire Revenge™.

Major cities witnessed a state of loose security following the ouster 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...
who some of his relatives still run military services.

The Interior Ministry has declared a ban on weapons carrying inside cities, but gunnies are still seen roaming with AK-47 assault rifles, hunting rifles and pistols inside Sana'a streets.

Posted by:Fred

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