[Yemen Post] The jacket wallah who attacked a military parade rehearsal in Yemen's capital Sanaa this week was a Yemeni soldier, named Haitham Hamid Hussein Mufarih, Almasdar Online reported on Thursday, quoting a front man for the Sharia Supporters. No more details were given.
A security source, who preferred not to be named, confirmed that Mufarih was a member in the Central Security Forces, the website said.
The interior ministry reported a day ago a 24-year old young man, Al-Worafi, was the bomber, but later this person, who lives in Sanaa, turned to be alive.
On Thursday, the ministry said two other suspects have been jugged
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in connection with the bombing.
More than one hundred central security forces were killed and more than three hundred others injured in the suicide kaboom at Al-Sabeen Square on Monday.
Some 67 of the victims were buried today, with families urging to find out who killed their relatives.
One of the troops, who participated in the parade rehearsal, said the bomber targeted a whole battalion.
"We suddenly heard a big kaboom and saw heads and parts of soldiers flying in the air," the soldier said.
The bombing, which drew large local and international condemnation, occurred amid an intensified offensive against Al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys in Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an
Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
province, killing and injuring hundreds of them.