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| UAE-backed separatists kill prisoner of war taken in Abyan |
| 2022-09-08 |
| [HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militias have killed a prisoner of war who was taken captive during the attack on the their position on Tuesday in 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... province, southern 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... Media sources said officers from the Security Belt Forces had eliminated the only prisoner of the bully boys, who launched the attack on the checkpoint of the STC in Ahwar district, east of Abyan. The slain prisoner is a Saudi national, according to the sources. The same sources stressed that the murder of the prisoner was deliberate and it was not excluded that the perpetrators were Salafist elements included in the Security Belt Forces, and loyal to al-Qaeda. This killing of this prisoner was aimed aimed at burying and covering up the planners and financiers of the attack against the UAE-backed militias, which left 21 dead, including the commander of the "anti-terrorism battalion". In addition, six |
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