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| Yemen opposition leader held for suspected sabotage |
| 2010-12-27 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Yemeni authorities have nabbed for questioning an opposition leader suspected of offering $50,000 to disrupt a regional soccer tournament, an Interior Ministry official said on Sunday. Yemen Socialist Party leader Mohammed Ghaleb Ahmed is suspected of offering the sum to separatist bully boyz in southern Yemen for "acts of sabotage" against the Gulf Cup, held in late November and early December, the official told Rooters. Yemen had deployed 30,000 troops to maintain calm during the tournament in the south, the site of bloody festivities as the government struggles to subdue separatists and a resurgent regional wing of al Qaeda. The 20th Gulf Cup which hosted teams from Yemen, the Gulf Arab states and Iraq, was seen as a test of Yemen's ability to ensure security in the volatile south. The party condemned Ahmed's detention and accused authorities of targeting him after he publicly criticised Yemen's President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh. |
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