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| Suicide Bomber Kills Yemen Pro-army Militia Chief |
| 2012-08-20 |
| [An Nahar] A suspected al-Qaeda jacket wallah went kaboom!" early Sunday in southern Yemen killing the commander of a local pro-army militia and wounding six people, a government official told Agence La Belle France Presse. Two children were among the maimed in the town of Mudiya in the restive southern province of 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... , the official said. "An Al-Qaeda suicide bomber managed to enter a home used as a base by the Popular Resistance Committees and activated an explosives belt killing the local commander Nasser Ali Mansur and wounding six," he said. The committees have recently become a target for al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons who were forced to flee Abyan in June following battles led by the army, with the local hard boyz backing them up. A doctor in Aden told AFP he had helped evacuate three of the maimed from a hospital in the Abyan city of Loden to a bigger facility in Aden "because they are at death's door." The attack came hours after suspected al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons killed 19 soldiers in a rocket attack and suicide kaboom on Saturday that targeted intelligence headquarters in Aden, the main southern city in Yemen. Also Sunday, an official told AFP that Yemeni authorities have freed a leading southern separatist days after he was tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on his arrival in Aden after spending several years in self-imposed exile. Former ambassador Ahmed al-Hassani, who has lived in Britannia since 2006 as a political refugee, was tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! at dawn on Wednesday at the airport after arriving on-board a flight from Beirut. Hassani was freed overnight Saturday on the express orders of President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, the official said. Hassani is the secretary general of the Southern Democratic Assembly. |
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