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| Omani Diplomats Evacuated From Yemen After Threats, Site |
| 2012-05-13 |
| [Yemen Post] Oman has ordered the staff of its embassy to leave Yemen and head to Muscat for the time being after threats from an anonymous group, Alahale reported, quoting a diplomat at the embassy on Saturday. "The Omani embassy in Yemen received threats from unknown people. The Sultanate of Oman took the threats seriously and ordered its staff to leave the country indefinitely," the diplomat said, according to the website. "The embassy did not close its door. The ambassador and the Omani staff have just been ordered by the Omani Foreign Ministry to head to Muscat," the diplomat said. The Yemeni workers continue and will continue their work at the embassy until the Omani staff is ordered to come back, the diplomat said. "The Omani authorities are currently contacting the Yemeni authorities to upgrade security around the embassy compound and the residence of the Omani staff". "The staff will resume job, expectedly within a month, when the Omani authorities get sure the security level around the embassy is much better," the website quoted the diplomat as saying. Weeks ago, the Saudi embassy was shut down in protest at the continuous detention of the Saudi consul, Abdullah Al-Khalidi, who was kidnapped and taken to Shabwa province in March. Al-Qaeda, which has also kidnapped a Swiss woman and a Frenchie in the past two months, was behind the abduction of the Saudi consul in Aden. The authorities are exerting major efforts to release the foreigners amid continuous battles on the Death Eaters in southern and southeastern regions including Shabwa and 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... |
| Posted by:Fred |