The former endowment minister Hamoud Al-Hitar has called the Yemeni government to engage in dialogue with Al-Qaeda bully boyz who are currently fighting the Yemeni army 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...
He further urged the government to not allow foreign military interventions in Yemen, pointing out that they US attacks strengthen radicalization.
Al-Hitar ,who served as the head of a dialogue committee tasked with conducting dialogue with Al-Qaeda bully boyz from 2002 to 2006, issued a fatwa against suicide kabooms.
He condemned the suicide kaboom that killed about 100 soldiers and maimed hundreds others in Sana'a, stressing that the bomber committed a crime that Islam and all other regions forbid.
He urged Yemenis raise awareness about the risks of terrorism and immunize youth against fundamental ideologies. Al-Hitar managed to persuade Al-Qaeda bully boyz to give up violence in the period from 2002 to 2005
In an interview with the state-run Al-Jumhoria newspaper last month, he attributed the expansion of Al-Qaeda in Yemenm to the lack to a serious political approach to combat the terrorism, insecurity Yemen has lately witnessed
Al-Hitar who resigned in protest at crimes committed against peaceful protests in 2011 said that Al-Qaeda was propped up with the aim of distorting the image of the peaceful struggle in the South and the peaceful uprising that broke out in 2011.
He accused some military and security leaders of cooperating with Al-Qaeda, stressing that they provided the organization with weapons and ordnance in Rada of Baida and Zinjibar and Jaar of Abyan. "Ansar Al-Shariah (supporters of the Islamic Law) is a mixture comprised of Al-Qaeda krazed killers, elements of the armed Southern Movement and supporters of 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...
he added.