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| Dozens of Qaeda fighters in Yemen: Governor |
| 2010-01-11 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Dozens of al-Qaeda militants are hiding out in a remote mountainous area of Yemen, a senior official said in comments published Sunday, as President Ali Abdullah Saleh urged them to lay down their arms. Al-Qaeda fighters, among them Saudis and Egyptians, have streamed in from Afghanistan and have joined local members of the jihadist network in lairs carved out in the rugged Kour mountain in southern Shabwa province, said provincial governor Ali Hasan al-Ahmadi. "There are dozens of Saudi and Egyptian al-Qaeda militants who came to the province," Ahmadi told the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat daily. "This is in addition to Yemenis who came from Marib and Abyan (provinces) and a number of militants from Shabwa province itself," he added. Among them, he added, are the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) Nasser al-Wahishi, his number two, Saeed Ali al-Shehri, a Saudi, and radical US-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi. The Egyptians and Saudis, Ahmadi said, had travelled to Yemen from Afghanistan. |
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