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Yemen Says Arrests Cell behind Deadly Parade Suicide Bombing
2012-06-30
[Yemen Post] The Yemeni authorities tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
the terrorist cell behind the suicide kaboom which killed and injured more than 400 soldiers during a parade rehearsal in the capital Sanaa in May, the 26 September weekly reported Thursday, quoting a statement by chief of the national security.

General Ali Muhammad Al-Anesi was quoted as saying "the security authorities tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
the terrorist cell of the Partisans of Sharia Law, Yemen Al-Qaeda's offshoot, which carried out the deadly attack".

Al-Anesi did not give more details, according to the paper.

On May 21, a jacket wallah infiltrated into Al-Sabeen Square in downtown Sanaa where units of military and security were conducting a parade rehearsal and below himself up killing more than one hundred central security forces. More than three hundred others were maimed.

Later, Al-Qaeda grabbed credit for the attack, which coincided with severe blows it was receiving under a US-backed offensive in the southern 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...
province.

In association with tribal fighters, the army could drive Al-Qaeda snuffies from Abyan province and nearby areas after hundreds of them including big shots had been killed and injured during the offensive.

In the meantime, Al-Qaeda has vowed to retaliate through attacking US and key Yemeni targets, with several suicide kabooms reported recently including the one killing commander of the southern military region who led the offensive.
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