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Tribesmen Release Turk in Yemen
 [Yemen Post] Armed rustics released on Sunday a Turkish citizen who was kidnapped in Yemen's southern 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... province in September, Yemeni officials in the capital Sanaa said. The Turk was released through a tribal mediation and handed over to the Yemeni authorities in the port city of Aden which in turn handed him to a delegate of his country's embassy, the officials said. A tribe in Al-Mahfad district, Abyan, kidnapped the Turk, who worked for a land transpiration company on September 18 to pressure the government to release a tribal prisoner who has been tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in a state jail for four years. The Turk is in good condition, the officials said, but they did not say whether the government has met the demand of the tribe. Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... Al-Qaeda is continuing the detention of some foreigners including the Saudi deputy consul who were held earlier this year. A Swiss female and the Saudi diplomat were kidnapped in March and several bids by the authorities to release have failed even after the army drove Al-Qaeda forces of Evil out of their strongholds in Abyan and Shabwa. Posted by: Fred 2012-10-08 |
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