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Yemen gunmen kill suspected homosexual
[Al Ahram] Gunmen have rubbed out a Yemeni man in the south of the country because they suspected he was homosexual, police said on Friday.One of two men on a cycle of violence shot up the man in his twenties late on Thursday outside his house in Huta, the capital of Lahij province, killing him on the spot. Police said the attackers, presumed Islamist hard boys, escaped after the killing, the sixth such murder since the start of the year. Similar killings in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula nation's provinces of 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 Aden have been blamed on an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group, Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Tunisia and Yemen, with the Tunisian version currently most active... For the past year, Ansar al-Sharia has imposed Islamic law on areas of Abyan where it still holds sway. Its so-called courts have tried and condemned to death several people accused of different crimes. Others have had hands amputated after being "convicted" of theft. Posted by: Fred 2013-09-28 |
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