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7 die in Aden car bomb attack
ADEN – A suicide car bomb killed seven people outside Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Rabbu Hadi’s residence in the southern city of Aden on Thursday, local officials and eyewitnesses said.“A suicide car bomb targeted a security checkpoint about 500 metres (yards) from the Maashiq palace,” the official told Reuters by telephone. “Seven people were killed and 10 were wounded. The majority of the casualties are civilians,” the official said of the latest in a series of deadly attacks by militants on government and security targets. The officials said President Hadi was inside the building at the time of the attack and was unharmed. Yemen suicide bomber said to be Dutch ISIS fighter [Ynet] 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.... affiliate in 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... has grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom targeting the presidential palace in the southern city of Aden. In an online statement posted on Twitter by the group's supporters, IS identified the attacker as Abu Hanifa al-Hollandi, an Arabic nom de guerre that suggests he was Dutch. The last name in murderous Moslems' pseudonyms usually indicates their nationality or place of origin. His real name was not immediately known. It was not possible to verify the claim. The group posted pictures that appeared to show the boom-mobile speeding toward barricades manned by presidential guards. Both ISIS and Yemen's al-Qaeda affiliate have a strong presence in Aden, which descended into lawlessness after Saudi-led coalition forces and government fighters retook the city from Iranian catspaws in 2015. Posted by: badanov 2016-01-29 |
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