[ALARABIYA] Al-Qaeda’s 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...
branch released a video on Saturday showing a United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
worker who was kidnapped in the war-torn country more than six months ago, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.
Five UN staff members were kidnapped in Yemen’s southern province of 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 Emirate after 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...
in February while returning to the port city of Aden "after having completed a field mission," UN spokesperson Eri Kaneko told AFP at the time.
In Saturday’s video message, apparently recorded on August 9, Akam Sofyol Anam, identified by SITE as Bangladeshi, urges "the UN, the international community, the humanitarian organizations, to please come forward... and meet the demands of my captors," without outlining the demands.
He said he was facing "serious health trouble," including heart problems, and needed "immediate medical support and hospitalization," according to SITE, which monitors bully boy activity.
Anam, who SITE identified as the "director of the United Nations Office of Security and Safety in Yemen," said he and four colleagues were kidnapped on February 11.
Yemen has been gripped by conflict since the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
 ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s took control of the capital Sanaa in 2014, triggering military intervention by the Arab Coalition in support of the government the following year.
Hundreds of thousands have died, directly from fighting as well as indirectly, and millions have been displaced in what the UN has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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