[An Nahar] Armed rustics have kidnapped two Egyptian technicians working at a cement factory in southern Yemen, a local official said on Tuesday."The two men were intercepted as they left the cement plant 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...
on Monday night and were taken off to a mountainous region," the official told Agence La Belle France Presse, asking not to be named.
He said the kidnappers belonged to the Marakisha tribe and were demanding the release of a member of their tribe tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
seven years ago on murder charges.
A tribal delegation is trying to negotiate the release of the two Egyptians, the source said.
Hundreds of people have been kidnapped in Yemen over the past 15 years, almost all of who have been freed unharmed.