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| Leaders urge Hadi to strongly attack Al-Qaeda |
| 2012-05-08 |
| [Yemen Post] Yemeni military, political and tribal leaders from 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... governorate met with President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi ...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... on Monday and urged him to reinforce troops in Abyan to wipe out Al-Qaeda from their areas. This meeting came hours after Al-Qaeda killed and captured dozens of Yemeni troops in Zinjibar of Abyan on Monday in surprise raids against military positions. The leaders expressed, during the meeting with Hadi, their willingness to form local committees to fight beside the army with the aim of defeating al-Qaeda and enabling the displaced persons to return homes. Among leaders who meet with Hadi Deputy Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Al-Shadadi, the politician Ali Ashaal, the Culture Minister Abdullah Awbal, and assistant of the Interior Minister Hussein Haitham. The leaders conveyed a memo from the locals of Abyan to President Hadi in which they directly accused the former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... of assisting Al-Qaeda in taking control in Zinjibar and displacing thousands of people. This fierce attack of Al-Qaeda against the Yemen army came after a US drone killed an Al-Qaeda leader, Fahad Al-Qasa'a on Sunday. Al-Qasa'a who was killed in Al-Saeed district, 60 kilometers east of Shabwa's capital, Ataq was designated as number three on America's most-wanted list. Hadi vowed in a meeting with military leaders on Saturday to defeat Al-Qaeda and reorganize Yemen's divided military. Yemen's military made progress in fighting Al-Qaeda during the past two months as dozens of Al-Qaeda operatives were killed by the military who was backed by local rustics. Gerald Feierstein, the U.S. ambassador to Yemen had hailed progress made by the Yemeni army against Al-Qaeda attributing that progress to changes made by President Abdurabu Mansur Hadi in the military's leadership. |
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