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| Bomb Wounds Six Shiite Militiamen in Yemen Capital |
| 2015-01-06 |
| [AnNahar] A bomb maimed six Shiite faceless myrmidons in the Yemeni capital on Monday, a security official said, the latest in spate of attacks on the Huthi fighters who overran Sanaa in September. The blast hit a post of the Huthis' police force in the Hayel district of Sanaa, the official said. It came a day after a bombing claimed by al-Qaeda killed four people, including a journalist, at a Huthi gathering in the mainly Shiite city of Dhamar, south of the capital. On Thursday, a jacket wallah killed 49 people at a religious celebration organised by Huthi supporters in the militia-held but mainly Sunni city of Ibb further south. The Huthis have met mounting resistance from armed Sunnis, including al-Qaeda loyalists, since they swept south from the capital into Sunni-majority areas late last year. Yemen has been dogged by instability since an uprising forced longtime strongman 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... from power in 2012, with the Huthis and al-Qaeda seeking to fill the power vacuum. |
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