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Arabia
Al-Qaeda: Emir of Modia Under Arrest
2011-11-25
[Yemen Post] Following festivities on November 21st opposing the government forces and al-Qaeda gunnies which led to the death of 9 Islamists, the terror group decided to take Dire Revenge™ by placing a roadside kaboom.

The Defense Ministry revealed on its website on Monday that 2 rustics were killed in the kaboom and that 2 others were maimed.

The attack on local rustics in Modia, a town located in the southern province of Abyan, prompted an immediate outcry from the population and the formation of a popular committee to decide what to do next against the growing al-Qaeda threat. The committee stated that the tribe had the duty to fight off the gunnies and take Dire Revenge™ on their people's death.

A group of armed tribal fighters besieged Adbulillah al-Thahiri, "the Emir of Modia" as the entire region knows of his ties with the terror group. A violent battle ensued, leaving 6 of Thahiri's loyalists dead, 4 others maimed and Thahiri himself in jug of the tribe.
Typical Al Qaeda behaviour: making friends and influencing people until the people turn on them in organized violence.
"Al-Thahiri was leading a sleeper cell in Modia and was in permanent hiding after the Modia directorate was cleared of [al-Qaeda] elements in a military campaign over a year ago," al-Tahati said. "The rustics rose up to protect themselves and their property from the ravages of al-Qaeda to prevent what happened in Jaar and Zinjibar from occurring."

Several security analysts amongst whom Doctor Saeed Obaid al-Jami from the Centre for Studies and Research said that in order to fight off the threat and expansion of terror groups within the region, popular support was not only essential but of prime importance.

He added that the organization of popular committee was extremely useful in supporting the government's actions against the terror cells.

"Government forces prefer to capture organization members so they can obtain information from their confessions and find out about al-Qaeda's future plans," he said.

Abyan deputy governor, Ahmed al-Rahwi, welcomed the arrest of Thahiri, saying "This indicates that the people sense their responsibilities after the devastation and destruction that took place in Zinjibar and Jaar. They fear that al-Qaeda could move to their directorate and repeat the scenario of establishing an Islamic emirate everywhere in Abyan province."

Al-Rawhi stressed that since Abyan posed such a strategic importance for al-Qaeda for it lies near Aden and Lahaj provinces to the west and Shabwa and Hadramaut to the east, the government and the people needed to work together in annihilating the threat.
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