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| Qaeda in Yemen stones woman to death for adultery |
| 2016-01-05 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Al-Qaeda Death Eaters have stoned a woman to death in a southeastern Yemeni city they control after accusing her of adultery and prostitution, several witnesses said on Monday. The Death Eaters on Sunday "placed the woman in a hole in the middle of the courtyard of a military building and stoned her to death in the presence of dozens of residents" of Hadramawt picturesque provincial capital Mukalla, one witness said. A local journalist at the scene confirmed the rare stoning, saying that the gunnies prevented photography of the execution. "This was the first time we have seen such a thing," another witness said. A copy of the purported verdict issued by the so-called Hadramawt court of Al-Qaeda's Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... in December said the married woman "confessed in front of the judges to committing adultery". Al-Qaeda's Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... branch is considered by Washington to be the most dangerous affiliate of the global network. It has taken advantage of the state's weakness to expand its control in various areas, including the vast Hadramawt region |
| Posted by:Fred |