At least five Al-Qaeda prisoners beat feet from the central prison in Yemen's western, port city of Hodeida on Tuesday, two days after the escape of ten terrorist suspects from the central prison in the southern port city of Aden, Almasdar Online reported, quoting a security source. The website did not report details about the prison break, coinciding with reports about the fleeing of Al-Qaeda operatives to Oman after the army defeated Al-Qaeda and cleared all cut-throats 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...
province.
Two months ago, two prisoners, who were incarcerated
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
on suspicion of links with Al-Qaeda, beat feet from the Aden prison. One of the two was sentenced to death.
Several jail breaks have been reported in Yemen in recent years, mainly by terrorist suspects.
About 93 inmates including 88 terrorist suspects beat feet from Yemeni prisons since June 2011, triggering doubts about the measures taken by the authorities to guard the jails.
In June 2011, about 63 Al-Qaeda suspects beat feet from the central prison in Mukalla city of Hadramout
...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard...
and in December about 13 beturbanned goons from the central prison in Aden.
Years ago, tens of Al-Qaeda suspects including big shots beat feet from the central prison in the capital Sanaa through a tunnel they dug to outside the prison.
In the past few months, the forces launched a US-backed offensive and cleared Al-Qaeda bad boys, retook their strongholds in Abyan province, in a major victory under the new government.
The offensive has been continuing to hunt the remaining cut-throats in other provinces amid fears Al-Qaeda may think to reseed or to intensify suicide kabooms.