[Al Ahram]Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has rejected efforts by holy mans and tribal chiefs to broker a truce with Al-Qaeda, insisting that the faceless myrmidons must lay down their arms, an official said Tuesday."The president wants members of Al-Qaeda to surrender their arms, announce their repentance and renounce their bad boy ideas," the official said on condition of anonymity.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), considered the jihadist network's most dangerous franchise, announced on several Islamist websites that the truce efforts had failed.
The mediators, who launched the initiative in January, had already revealed in a statement on 5 February that their efforts had run into trouble.
They said Hadi had refused to sign up to a truce proposal which had been accepted by AQAP chief Nasser al-Wahishi.
The collapse of the mediation bid came as a suspected Al-Qaeda jacket wallah rammed a boom-mobile into a building in the southern Yemeni city of Loder, killing 12 pro-government militiamen.