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Yemen Intelligence Officer Killed in Flashpoint City
[AnNahar] Gunmen rubbed out a Yemeni intelligence officer Thursday in Mukalla, a scenic provincial capital where al-Qaeda-linked gunnies briefly seized an army headquarters and took hostages last week, a security source said.Men on cycle of violences fired seven times at Colonel Abdullah al-Tamimi in the Fuah district, killing him on the spot, before fleeing the scene, the source said. Mukalla is the capital of the southeastern province of Hadramawt and is a major port city. On September 30, gunnies from the al-Qaeda-affiliated 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... group seized an army headquarters there after a jacket wallah rammed a car into the entrance. The army soon retook most of the building, except for the top floor, where the gunnies held the soldiers captive. Days later, troops assaulted the top floor in an operation in which the government said all the gunnies and an unspecified number of hostages died. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has intensified its attacks on security forces in Yemen, mainly in its lawless southern and eastern provinces, where jihadist groups are active. The Islamist network has taken advantage of the weakening of the central government since a popular uprising that toppled 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... in 2011. Washington regards AQAP as the global jihadist network's most dangerous affiliate and has stepped up drone strikes targeting the bully boys. Posted by: trailing wife 2013-10-11 |
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