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Al-Qaeda hires tribesmen to kidnap foreigners
 [Yemen Post] Al-Qaeda managed to hire rustics to kidnap foreigners and transfer them to South Yemen, the Emaraiti Al-Byan newspaper quoted a Yemeni official on Tuesday. The newspaper Al-Qaeda pay big amounts of money for rustics in return for their acts. The official said the abduction of a Saudi diplomat, Abdullah Al-Khalidi, a French doctor, and a Swiss Teacher proved that tribal elements operate for Al-Qaeda, pointing out that al-Qaeda pay big amounts of money for the kidnappers. Al-Qaeda bully boyz received painful attacks as the Yemeni army cleansed them from their main strongholds 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... and they restore to attack military and security officers, carry out suicide kabooms and kidnap foreigners, a Yemeni analyst said. Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... sources said that the Italian security officer who was kidnapped earlier in Sana'a was transferred to the remote governorate of Marib, pointing out that he will be released following negotiations with tribal leaders. The sources said Alessandro Spadotto, responsible for security at the Italian embassy in Sana'a, was kidnapped by kidnapper Ali Naser Huraidkan who is accused by the government of committing killing and sabotage acts. They spelt out that the abductor demands a ransom. Yemen's foreign minister has vowed to do everything possible to track down the kidnappers of an Italian embassy security officer and obtain his safe release, state news agency Saba said. In a phone call with Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi Di Santagata, Yemeni Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi said the hunt for the kidnappers had begun, Saba reported late on Sunday. Posted by: Fred 2012-08-02 |
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