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| Al-Qaida Yemen Offshoot Claims Murder of Huthi Official |
| 2015-03-21 |
| [AnNahar] Al-Qaeda's Yemen affiliate grabbed credit for the murder of an award-winning journalist turned top official of the Shiite Huthi militia, the group said Thursday on Twitter. The claim was made by 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... , or Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), which is linked to the Sunni Lion of Islam al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP). A brief statement on Twitter said two snuffies of the group riding cycle of violences opened fire on Abdul Karim al-Khiwani on Wednesday near his home in the centre of Sanaa, before fleeing. Khiwani was a member of the Revolutionary Committee of the Huthis that control Sanaa and had been head of the militia's media department. In 2008 he was awarded the Amnesty has denounced the "despicable killing of a leading journalist and activist," saying Khiwani had a history of being harassed for his "outspoken journalism and peaceful activism", and called for a probe. The United States considers the Yemen-based AQAP the most dangerous branch of the global jihadist network. |
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