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| Security officer is gunned down in Hadhramawt |
| 2014-01-27 |
| [Yemen Post] A day after Yemen President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi announced the official end of the National Dialogue Conference, calling on all Yemenis to rally around their officials as to successfully usher the country through the last stage of its power transition, security officials confirmed that yet another of their officers had been bumped off in the south-eastern province of Hadhramawt. Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Amir al-Mahthouthi, a senior officer in the investigative branch of state security was killed by alleged Islamic gunnies as he was leaving his residence. In typical al-Qaeda style the unidentified armed escaped on cycle of violences. Al-Qaeda turbans have for the past two years waged war against Yemen intelligence and security officials in a bid to derail the impoverished nation's anti-terror efforts. Assassinations have become somewhat of an occupational hazards over the past few months in Yemen' southern region as terror turbans have significantly increased the frequency of their attacks against officers. But more troubling yet, it is al-Qaeda's daring attacks against military outposts and positions which have caused security experts to question the terror group's military power. Despite having been driven out of the 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... in 2012, where terror turbans had managed to establish strongholds, the group seem to have literally grown from strength to strength. In the course of a year al-Qaeda had proven it could carry successful strikes against Yemen military. Labelled the most dangerous terror branch in the region, al-Qaeda Yemen has proven to be a tough adversary. |
| Posted by:Fred |