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Suicide Bomber Targets Yemen Southern Separatists
[An Nahar] A jacket wallah gravely maimed three members of the separatist Southern Movement in an attack in the southern Yemeni province of Lahij on Friday, the group and a local official said.The bomber detonated an explosives belt as an activists' cars headed for the port of Aden for a demonstration on Saturday marking the independence of the former South Yemen. The bomber was killed "and three members of the Southern Movement were gravely maimed and evacuated towards Aden to be hospitalized", a Southern Movement source said. A local official confirmed to Agence La Belle France Presse that three people had been seriously maimed in the attack, for which there was no immediate claim of responsibility. The southern question has been a major stumbling-block in a Yemeni national dialogue launched in March, with hardline factions of the Southern Movement demanding secession and boycotting the talks. Secessionists have called for a major rally to be held in Aden on Saturday in support of their demands. Elsewhere in Yemen, an army colonel was rubbed out by two gunnies riding a cycle of violence in the eastern Hadramout ...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis is estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard... province, where al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is active, a security source told AFP. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-12 |
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