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| Explosion kills top politician in Yemen |
| 2014-11-19 |
| [ARABNEWS] A boom-mobileing on Tuesday killed a leading member of Yemen's powerful Sunni Al-Islah party whose supporters have been battling Shiite militias, a security official said. Al-Islah assistant secretary general Sadeq Mansur died "immediately" when a device inside the door of his car went kaboom!in the country's third city Taez southwest of Sanaa, the official told AFP. Police are trying to identify the attackers, the official added. Supporters of the Moslem Brüderbund-linked Al-Islah have been resisting an advance by Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to Americaâ¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... Early this month, the Houthis attacked Al-Islah headquarters in the southwestern city of Ibb, killing three people. Dozens of people have also been killed in fighting between armed Shiites and Sunnis in central Yemen. The Shiite militias did not enter mainly Sunni Taez, 250 km from Sanaa, after a deal was struck between the provincial authorities and the Houthis' representatives to avoid fighting there. Mansur's murder comes just over two weeks after another politician, the liberal Union of Popular Forces secretary-general Mohammed Abdulmalik Al-Mutawakil, was bumped off in Sanaa. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Al-Islah assistant secretary general Sadeq Mansur died "immediately" when a device inside the door of his car went kaboom! in the country's third city Taez southwest of Sanaa, the official told AFP Prolly a Takata airbag |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-11-19 10:54 |