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| Yemen's Islamic State affiliate takes credit for attacks |
| 2015-03-21 |
| [ARABNEWS] A group claiming to be a Yemeni branch of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group says it carried out a string of suicide kabooms in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, that killed a total of 137 people and injured 345 others. The group posted an online statement saying that five jacket wallahs carried out what it described as a "blessed operation" against the "dens of the Shiites." The bombers attacked the Badr and Al-Hashoosh mosques, located across town from each other, during midday Friday prayers. Leading Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... holy man Al-Murtada bin Zayd Al-Muhatwari, the imam of the Badr mosque, was among those killed, a medical source said. The claim, posted in an online statement, could not immediately be independently confirmed and offered no proof of an IS role. It was posted on the same website in which the Islamic State affiliate in Libya grabbed credit for Wednesday's deadly attack on a museum in Tunisia.The Houthi militia's Al-Massira television said hospitals in the capital had made urgent appeals for blood donations.Footage aired by Al-Massira showed bodies lying in pools of blood outside the mosques, as worshippers rushed the maimed to hospitals in pick-up trucks. Another suicide bomber went kaboom!outside a mosque in the northern Houthi stronghold of Saada, a source close to the militia said. Only the assailant was killed in that kaboom and tight security at the mosque prevented the bomber from going inside, the source added. The Houthis overran Sanaa in September and have since tightened their grip on power. |
| Posted by:Fred |