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Secessionists Take Over Yemen Base Amid Ongoing Battles On Militants
[Yemen Post] Gunmen, believed to be from the southern secessionist movement, Harak, took over a military post in Yemen's southern Dhale province on Friday, informed sources told the Yemen Post.

The post is based on the peak of the highest mountain in the province and fierce battles erupted between the forces and the gunnies, the sources said.

"The attack on the military post took place during the prayers on Friday when the gunnies exploited the absence of the troops who were at mosque," they said.

Furthermore, the gunnies besieged another nearby military post and the forces were fighting them to retake the seized one, the Dar Al-Haid camp, and lift the besiege, they added.

The southern movement, Harak, emerged in 2007 to demand legal rights of the people in the south but later it turned to be divided into wings including armed ones.

Separately, the army is preparing to storm from all directions Zinjibar, the capital of 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...
, to clear cut-throats from the remaining areas, after the forces in association with popular fighters have recently regained control of some areas in it. Al-Qaeda cut-throats seized Zinjibar and other towns in Abyan last year.

In southern and southeastern regions, the army, with direct support from the US, has been fighting Al-Qaeda jihad boys, mainly in Abyan and Shabwa, for the past few years.

Hundreds of cut-throats have been killed and injured in the past few weeks including senior jihad boy leaders wanted by the US. Some of the leaders were killed in drone strikes in Shabwa.


Posted by: Fred 2012-05-13
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