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Arabia
Explosions rock headquarters of defected military division
2012-01-30
[Yemen Post] Three kabooms rocked on Saturday night the headquarters of the defected First Armored Davison in Sana'a commanded by Ali Mohsin Saleh, military sources affirmed.

While some sources said that three bombs went kaboom! inside the camp, others said that mortars were shot from another military positions. "No casualties were fallen" the sources said.

They affirmed that the mortars were shelled from the southwestern mountains of Sana'a in which several brigades of the Republican Guard commanded by the elderly son of the outgoing President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... 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...
position.

These events came at the same time that thousands of Yemeni Air Force personnel rally in the capital to demand the removal of the commander of Air Forces and the half-Brother of Saleh.

Moreover, demonstrations erupted on Saturday inside a camp of the Republican Guard located in south Sana'a.

Yemeni analysts said that the bombardments of the First Armored Division was as a response of Saleh's son, Ahmed, and his half-brother, Mohammad, to those protests rocking their camps.

They affirmed that these are attempts to raise military tensions with the aim of containing these massive protests.

Eyewitnesses said that they heard shootings inside the camp belonging to the Republican Guard south Sana'a, indicating that soldiers of the Fourth Brigade staged a sit-in demanding to have their salaries and sack the commander of the brigade.

They made reference that the soldiers blocked a main street linking between Sana'a and Aden, demanding to dismiss the commander of their brigade.

Military sources had revealed the commander of the Republic Guard Ahmed Ali Saleh had cautioned officers and soldiers against arranging any demonstrations, threatening to purge anyone trying to protest.

Posted by:Fred

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