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| 10 Zaidis Dead in Yemen Police Clash |
| 2013-06-10 |
| [An Nahar] Ten Shiite Zaidi rebels were killed and 38 maimed in festivities with police outside the headquarters of Yemen's national security services in Sanaa on Sunday, a security bigshot said. The official said the violence broke out as the rebels, among a crowd demanding the release of members of their community, attacked the building with automatic weapons and grenades. The assailants were "well-prepared and aimed to infiltrate the headquarters", he said, adding they had used neighboring buildings to launch their raid on security forces backed by special police units. The official said 10 attackers were killed, 38 maimed and 87 others jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! They had infiltrated a crowd of around 500 Zaidis demonstrating in front of the building to demand the release of fellow Zaidis being held by the authorities, he said. The official said earlier that some of those detained were "suspected of (sharing) intelligence with Iran". The Zaidi rebels, also known as Huthis after their leader Abdel Malek al-Huthi, had rebelled in 2004 against the government of ex-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... , accusing it of marginalizing them politically and economically. |
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