[Yemen Post] The security authorities have been placed on high alert in Yemen's capital after the interior ministry got information an Al-Qaeda bomber was reported to have entered Sanaa to carry out attacks. The ministry said it had obtained information that Abdullah Muhammad Jabir Al-Shabwani had infiltrated into the capital for a car kaboom.
The suspect has a Land Cruiser car 2009, it said, pointing out that the security authorities have been placed on high alert and ordered to take necessary measures including precise checking at exits and entries to face sabotage and terrorist attacks.
Meantime, the army is continuing an offensive on Al-Qaeda gunnies in southern and southeastern regions including 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...
, where the gunnies seized some key towns last year.
On Monday, at least 22 gunnies were killed when the forces advanced in Zinjibar, the capital, and other towns clear gunnies from them.
The expanded operations started on Saturday after fierce battles with the gunnies in the past weeks in which hundreds of gunnies were killed and injured.