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Gunmen Kill Senior Security Officer in Yemen's Aden
[AnNahar] Gunmen on a cycle of violence Sunday rubbed out the director of security operations in war-strewn Yemen's second city Aden, police said. Colonel Abdelhakim al-Sanidi was killed as he was leaving his home in the coastal city's Mansura district, police officials said. The attackers fled after the shooting. Yemeni authorities have long blamed the country's branch of al-Qaeda for such attacks on members of the security forces. Backed by weapons and troops from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates, government loyalists recaptured Aden from Iran-backed rebels and their allies in mid-July, before retaking four other southern provinces. But security has remained fragile in the port city, where al-Qaeda suspects were accused last week of blowing up a building used by the secret police. They also set up checkpoints in a district of the southern city and seized five buildings including an intelligence services facility, officials said. Also last week, a rocket attack on the governor's temporary headquarters in Aden killed four people and maimed 10 others. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... , viewed by Washington as the network's deadliest, has exploited the unrest sweeping Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... to seize the port city of Mukalla, 480 kilometers (300 miles) east of Aden. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-08-31 |
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