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| Qaida Attacks Shiite Rebels in Yemen |
| 2014-09-30 |
| [AnNahar] An al-Qaeda group in Yemen has launched three attacks against Iranian catspaws, vowing a tough fight against the gunnies who overran the capital last week, officials and witnesses said Monday. Gunmen from Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... opened fire on Sunday night at a vehicle in the central Baida province, killing all six rebels on board, witnesses said. In Sanaa, two rebels were maimed when an bomb went off, also on Sunday night, near a checkpoint, a security official said, accusing al-Qaeda of being behind the attack. The attacks followed a suicide kaboom earlier in the day that targeted a small hospital used by Houthis in Majzar, 80 kilometres east of Sanaa, tribal sources said. Ansar al-Sharia, a group linked to al-Qaeda, said on Twitter that it carried out the attack which had caused "dozens" of casualties. The rebels swept down from their stronghold in the rugged northwestern mountains last month, demanding economic and political reforms. On September 21, they seized key state installations without resistance, most of them in northern Sanaa, after festivities on the city's outskirts with Islamists killed more than 270 people. Al-Qaeda vowed on Wednesday to fight the rebels in defense of Sunni Moslems, three days after the gunnies overran Sanaa. "We have unsheathed our sharp swords to defend you," Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said in a statement, warning the Iranian catspaws of the "unbearable." "Your heads will fly off," the statement threatened the rebels, charging that the Huthis' takeover of Sanaa was the "outcome of a Persian plot in Yemen." Sanaa has repeatedly accused Shiite Iran of backing the rebels. |
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