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Saudi Arabian sending more reinforcements to Islah Party mercenaries in Abyan
2023-01-31
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
sent military reinforcements to snuffies affiliated with the Islah Party, who are now stationed under the name of the "Joint Forces", in the coast city of Shuqra 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 Emirate after 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...
, informed sources reported on Sunday.

Southern activist muppet Ahmed al-Hanshi confirmed in a post on his "Facebook" page: "The Saudi-led coalition sent a shipment of weapons to the Joint Forces Command in Shuqra."

He added that the weapons shipment arrived Saturday night in the east of Ahwar city on board a locomotive and a truck.

The arms shipment was received by "military vehicles belonging to the joint forces, and they were transported to several military sites in Shuqra," according to al-Hanshi.

The "Joint Forces Command" in the Abyan axis warned, in a statement issued on August 23, of the consequences of any military attack targeting its positions in the province by the UAE-backed factions.
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