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Five Syrians, three Yemenis arrested in South Yemen
[Yemen Post] Tribesmen tossed in the slammerInto the paddy wagon wit' yez! on Monday five Syrians and three Yemenis at Khoor Omaira of the southern governorate of Lahj. According to local sources, the rustics kidnapped the Syrians and Yemenis on ground of confrontations broken out with security forces two days ago. They further spelt out that the rustics accuse military commanders of taking over their lands and that they demand to release leaders of the Southern Movement including Bajash al-Aghabri who was tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! several days ago. Media sources had said that Saudis were among the kidnapped men, but local sources affirmed that the kidnapped are Syrian and Yemeni nationals. 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 Sana'a 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. Tribal sources had said that Al-Qaeda managed to hire rustics to kidnap foreigners and transfer them to South Yemen. A number of foreigners including a Saudi diplomat and a Swiss nationals are still held by Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... h, an al-Qaeda linked group, in Abyan. Posted by: Fred 2012-10-09 |
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