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Arabia
Yemen Foiled Plot against Embassies
2012-06-21
[An Nahar] Yemen's security forces have foiled a Death Eater plot to attack embassies in Sanaa, state news agency SABA said on Wednesday, just days after the army forced al-Qaeda out of their bastions in the country's south.

"Security forces have managed to foil a terror plot targeting foreign embassies in the capital," SABA news agency said citing a top security official.

According to the unnamed official, "three suspects armed with weapons, explosives and maps showing the location of foreign embassies," were tossed in the slammer
Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up!
He said the residences of "military commanders and other important people" were also marked on the seized maps.

The report comes two days after a jacket wallah killed Salem Ali Qoton, the army general who spearheaded a month-long offensive against al-Qaeda in Yemen's 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 Emirate after 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...
and Shabwa provinces in the south.

The offensive, launched on May 12, ended more than a year of al-Qaeda control in a string of towns and villages in the troubled south and east.

The jihadists are believed to have fled to the lawless mountainous regions of the eastern Hadramawt province.

In May, an al-Qaeda suicide bomber went kaboom!" in the middle of a battalion of soldiers rehearsing for an army parade in Sanaa, killing more than a 100 people and wounding dozens of others.
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