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| Al-Qaeda blows up Yemen army HQ in stronghold city |
| 2015-08-27 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Al-Qaeda turbans on Wednesday blew up an army headquarters and set up checkpoints in the network's southeastern stronghold of Mukalla, officials in Hadramawt province said. Wednesday's kaboom flattened the three-storey army building - the command center for a zone covering Hadramawt and parts of neighbouring Shabwa province. It came a day after al-Qaeda bombed a headquarters of the secret police in Mukalla, the officials said. The coalition of Arab states has been carrying out air strikes against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... since March, but has so far not intervened against al-Qaeda. In Aden a 100-strong Saudi force arrived on Tuesday and was deployed at the main southern city's international airport, military sources said. "This force's mission is to help secure the city, where al-Qaeda turbans surfaced last weekend," one of the sources said, referring to Aden. Backed by arms and troops from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates, government loyalists recaptured Aden from Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... rebels and their allies in mid-July before retaking four other southern provinces. On Tuesday, the International Committee of the Red Thingy said it had suspended its operations in Aden after unidentified gunnies stormed its office there. |
| Posted by:Fred |