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| Hadi refuses mediation to end fighting with Al-Qaeda |
| 2012-05-09 |
| [Yemen Post] President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi has refused a mediation of Salafi holy mans to end fighting with Al-Qaeda, conditioning that the group must first surrender all its heavy arms, Al-Ahali Newspaper quoted well-informed sources. The sources said the holy mans met with Hadi on Monday and suggested to make a truce between both sides, pointing out that Hadi expressed his determination to defeat the so-called Ansar Al-Sharia (Supporters of the Islamic Law) in 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... Hadi had met with political, military and tribal leaders of Abyan governorate, his birthplace, on Monday and expressed its willingness to support public committees that fight beside the Yemeni army in Abyan. The Yemeni News Agency said on Monday said a memo was handed over to Hadi in which rustics of Abyan explained deteriorated living conditions in some districts controlled by Al-Qaeda in Abyan. The memo 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. Among leaders who met 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. Yemen's Defense Ministry stated on Monday that 22 troops were killed in a raid launched by Al-Qaeda against military positions in Zinjibar of Abyan. 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 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. |
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