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Arabia
Thousands rally in al-Qaeda held town
2012-01-20
[Yemen Post] Thousands of local rustics staged on Wednesday a demonstration in protest of recent events in their town of Rada, some 260km southeast of the Yemeni capital of Sana'a.

The protesters shouted slogans condemning the army's week response to al-Qaeda thugs, who took control of their town with out real resistance and blaming President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh's
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
regime for what happened.

On Wednesday, tribal chiefs held Saleh's responsible for the fall of Rada into the control of terrorists, saying there was connivance between them.

Saleh has long played al-Qaeda card to convince the world that without him in the helm of Yemen, the country will turn into a failed.

Yemen-based al-Qaeda have been very active lately as it strengthened its foothold in the south provinces of the country, apparently taking advantage of the political vacuum triggered by the massive popular protests calling for putting an end to the 33-rule of Saleh.
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