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Islamist Group Claims Holding 5 Yemen Officers in Syria
[An Nahar] A shadowy Islamist group, Al-Nusra Front, said it is holding five Yemeni army officers allegedly sent to Syria to help fight an 18-month uprising, in a video posted on the Internet on Sunday.The four-minute video posted on jihadist forums shows the men it says are being held in northern Syria. It shows the Yemeni army IDs of the five men who condemn the "crimes" committed by  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad's Supressor of the Damascenes... regime against Syrians and the Sanaa regime's support for Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... The men -- named as Ali al-Salama, Mohammed Abdo al-Mlaiki, Hani Nizar, Hassan al-Wahib and Ahmed Radman -- say they were serving in the northern city of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , a key battleground. "I came after coordination between the Yemeni and Syrian governments to crush the Syrian revolt," says Mlaiki, who like the four other officers is seen sitting below a black flag on which "Al-Nusra Front" is written in Arabic. "I call on the Yemeni government to cut off all military and logistic relations (with Syria) because President Bashir al-Assad's regime kills its people, and this is what we saw with our own eyes in many Syrian regions." It was unclear when the men were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! or when the video was taped. Al-Nusra has claimed the majority of suicide kabooms during the anti-regime revolt in Syria, including a twin suicide kaboom in Damascus in May that killed 55 people. Posted by: Fred 2012-10-01 |
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