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| Al-Qaeda militants seize more locations in southeast Yemen, soldier killed |
| 2012-01-17 |
| [Yemen Post] Militants believed to belong to al-Qaeda launched Monday offences on government institutions in the southeast city of al-Baythda,some260 Kilometers southwest the Yemeni capital of Sana'a. The bully boyz continued their assault today and seized control of the central prison releasing all of its inmates. They also attacked an intelligence prison in the city and set it ablaze , leaving a soldier killed and another injured. The ministry of defense quoted a military source in the city as saying:"a terrorist group attacked Monday the central prison in the Rada and they set an intelligence prison a blaze, which resulted in one soldier killed and another injured," The initial accounts of Rada's central prison released inmates are 700 among them serving judiciary sentences. The bully boyz have began their attacks on Sunday as they took control of key locations in the al-Baytha bustling provincial capital of Rada, including historic Rada castle and communications' building . The terrorist group declared Rada as an islamist emirate ,as did their fellow group(Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... ) in the southern Abyan bustling provincial capital of Zinjubar in May. The group is led by Tariq al-Thahab, who is connected by marriage to late American-Yemeni holy man Anwar al-Awlaqi , who was killed a couple of months ago by an American drone. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Who is funding them? Iran/Sudan? |
| Posted by: Paul 2012-01-17 05:26 |
| #1 Another Pakistan/Somalia in the making. |
| Posted by: Paul 2012-01-17 05:25 |