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Yemen Police Arrest Two Qaida Militants
[An Nahar]  Yemeni security forces nabbed two al-Qaeda beturbanned goons at a checkpoint in the southern city of Aden on Wednesday, a security official said."Amar al-Maysari and Ali al-Jahafi, who are members of al-Qaeda, were placed in long-term storage Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! at Al-Rabat checkpoint," north of the port city, the official said. He said they were in a car coming from the province of Lahj in the early hours of the day. On Tuesday, security forces killed three suspected members of the jihadist network in a raid on their hideout in Mansoura neighbourhood, in Aden, foiling a major plot to blow up targets in the city. Two vehicles packed with explosives and three suicide belts were discovered at the hideout, the official said. Al-Qaeda, which took advantage of the weakness of Yemen's central government in the 2011 protests against now ousted 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... , remains active in parts of southern and eastern Yemen. Posted by: Fred 2012-10-04 |
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