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Yemen Arrests Al-Qaeda Members Who Escaped Prison
2012-07-11
[Yemen Post] The Yemen authorities incarcerated
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
on Tuesday two Al-Qaeda suspects who beat feet from the central prison in Hodeida province last month, the interior ministry reported.
Have they considered hamstringing? It worked well on blacksmiths in the old days...
On June 26, five Al-Qaeda prisoners beat feet from the central prison in Hodeida, triggering doubts about several prison breaks by Al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons in several Yemeni cities in recent years.

This year, Al-Qaeda suspects were reported to have beat feet from jails in Aden and other cities.

The ministry said the two were incarcerated
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
in Hodeida and named: Nasser Al-Sayed Ismail Mutahar and Haitham Hasan Sad Ahmed Afifi.

A hunt is continuing for the remaining prisoners, three, it said, pointing out the local authorities announced a reward for information leading their arrest or location.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
the Yemeni authorities are continuing an extensive hunt for Al-Qaeda operatives across the republic after the army drove all faceless myrmidons out of their strongholds 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 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.

Key towns including Abyan capital Zinjibar were seized and declared as Islamic emirates last year, but the army in association with tribal fighters cleared all faceless myrmidons and regained control of the towns.

Hundreds of faceless myrmidons including big shots were killed in the US-backed offensive in the past few months and the victory has been widely hailed.

Separately, the state penal court in the capital Sanaa convicted three people of forming an gang handing down death sentences to two of them.

The third was given a jail sentence.

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