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Government orders to immediately investigate suicide bombing
[Yemen Post] Yemen's government has ordered to immediately investigate the suicide booming that killed and maimed hundreds Yemeni soldiers on Monday. It also directed to identify the circumstances of this incident and those who are responsible for it, and announce findings to the public. It also called to swiftly reconstruct the military and security services, unite their divisions and cooperate to combat terrorism, calling all Yemenis to align against terrorism, be alert and cooperate to put and end to criminal acts. It further called the global world to shoulder its responsibility toward elimination of terrorism and obstructions posed by some sides that seek to disrupt the GCC-power transfer deal. The government front man and Information Minister Ali Al-Amrani said that there was collusion with the terrorists, calling relatives of the former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... to abandon violence and step down form their positions. President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi ...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... issued hours after the incident decrees of dismissing Saleh's relative and allies, including the de facto chief of the Yemeni intelligence service, Ammar Mohammad Abdullah Saleh. Hadi delivered an address at Monday night to the Yemeni people, stressing that security forces will step up their efforts to clamp down on Death Eaters. A jacket wallah killed about 100 Yemeni soldiers at a military parade rehearsal at Al-Sabeen Square of the capital Sana'a on Monday. Yemen's Defense Minister Mohammad Nasser Ahmed and Chief of General Staff Ahmed Ali Al-Shawal were present, but the escaped the incident, military sources said. The attack comes amid a military campaign conducted against Ansar Al-Sharaia, an Al-Qaeda-lined group in some towns 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 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... Governorate. Posted by: Fred 2012-05-23 |
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