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Suspected militants blow up abandoned church in Yemen's Aden
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Suspected gunnies blew up a deserted Catholic church Wednesday in Yemen's second city Aden, where Islamist gunnies have gained ground in recent months, security officials and witnesses said.Four gunnies shouting " There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but a police source said there were suspicions gunnies from either the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group or Al-Qaeda were behind the destruction of the church. Residents said the kaboom completely destroyed the small church, which was attached to a cemetery and built in the 1950s when Aden was a British protectorate. Like many other Christian churches in Aden, the building had been abandoned for many years, residents said. Of the 22 churches that operated in Aden when the city was a British colony before 1967, only a few remain open, used rarely by foreign workers and African refugees. In September, masked arsonists torched the Saint Joseph Catholic church in the central Crater neighborhood of Aden. Al-Qaeda gunnies have been accused of several attacks since pro-government forces pushed Iran-backed rebels out of the battle-scarred city in July with support from a Saudi-led coalition. The jihadist network's 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... branch, regarded by Washington as its deadliest, has exploited the fighting to boost its presence in swathes of the south and east of the country. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-10 |
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